“It is absurd how many unmet promises are currently circulating about possible new reactor types,” said the politician in the newspapers of the Funke media group (Thursday editions).
“Nuclear power plants are and will remain high-risk facilities that generate highly radioactive nuclear waste,” she added. The nuclear phase-out was decided in a bipartisan consensus and makes Germany safer, said Lemke.
Europe is currently facing more and more obsolete nuclear power plants, whose continued operation is becoming more risky and which can only be retrofitted selectively, criticized Lemke.
This problem belongs at the center of the debate and “not fairy tales and myths of nuclear power plant concepts that solve neither the safety problems nor the repository issue,” said the environment minister.
While three of the last six nuclear power plants in Germany will go offline at the turn of the year, the EU Commission is discussing the classification of nuclear power as a climate-friendly form of energy.
The classification is part of the new taxonomy planned by the Commission for sustainable forms of energy, which also deals with the assessment of gas as a sustainable transition technology.