The government holds on to nuclear power | People & Politics

decade ago a Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's SPD-Green government passed a law phasing out nuclear power by 2022. Now Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition wants to extend that deadline. Her plan would see the last reactors running until 2040 or 2050.AThe government is celebrating its new energy plan, which also involves heavy investment in renewables, as a revolution. The opposition is up in arms against the plan, and has threatened court action and protests.