The country is pulling the plug on its last three reactors, betting it will succeed in its green transition without nuclear power.
While many Western countries depend on nuclear power, Europe’s largest economy is turning the page even if the subject remains controversial until the end.
Germany is implementing the decision to phase out nuclear power taken in 2002 and accelerated by Angela Merkel in 2011, after the Fukushima disaster.
Fukushima showed that “even in a high-tech country like Japan, the risks associated with nuclear energy cannot be controlled 100 per cent”, the former chancellor justified at the time.