BERLIN – Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialized power to shut down all its nuclear plants, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022, the government agreed Monday.
Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen announced the decision by the center-right coalition, which was prompted by the Japan nuclear disaster, in the early hours of Monday morning, describing it as "irreversible".
He said the vast majority of Germany's 17 reactors would be offline by the end of 2011.
Roettgen was speaking after a meeting of the ruling coalition led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which lasted from Sunday evening into the small hours of Monday.
Germany has 17 nuclear reactors on its territory, eight of which are currently off the electricity grid.
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if anyone can engineer and implement new energy options and technologies it's the Germans they will set the example and economic model precedent that we should be
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