OSLO-LONDON: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives are preparing to abandon nuclear power for good and to spend billions on expanding the use of renewables to meet future energy demands. Jens Eckhoff, president of the German Offshore Foundation, tells Recharge the Fukushima disaster in Japan "will change German energy politics dramatically" and herald a permanent shift away from nuclear power..
Berlin decided on 15 March to close the country's seven oldest nuclear stations for at least three months to conduct new safety checks, which may lead to some reactors being decommissioned earlier than planned.
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