Germany’s Nuclear power plants shutdown by the year of 2022

Germany's alliance government has declared a U-turn of policy that will observe all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022.

The move makes Germany the largest industrial power to declare strategies to stop nuclear energy.

Environment Minister Norbert Rottgen made the pronouncement following late-night discussions.

Chancellor Angela Merkel made a board to analyze nuclear power following the destruction at Fukushima in Japan. There have been mass anti-nuclear demonstrations throughout Germany in the rouse of March's Fukushima crisis, caused by an earthquake and tsunami.

Mr. Rottgen said the seven oldest reactors - which were shut down for a protection measure right away after the Japanese emergency- would never be utilized again. An eighth plant - the Kruemmel competency in northern Germany, which was already offline and has been overwhelmed by technical faults, would also be closed down for good. Six others would go shut down by 2021 at the newest and the three latest by 2022, he said.

Mr. Rottgen said: "It's crystal-clear. The newest end for the last three nuclear power plants is 2022. There will be no part for modification."

Mr. Rottgen said a tax on used up fuel rods, likely to enhance 2.3bn euros (£1.9bn) a year from this year, would stay in spite of the shutdown.

Mrs. Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats meet up their junior colleagues on Sunday after the morals board had brought its results. She said I think we are on a right direction but several queries have to be thought. If you want to quit then we will have to find out some sturdy and sustainable energy term.

The German Social Democrats and the Greens government have earlier decided to close down nuclear power station till 2021. But last September the government took a decision to expend the life of Germany’s nuclear reactors with the average of 12 years. Ministers said they required to keep nuclear energy as a "over passing technology" to a greener future.

The move to expand was not accepted in Germany even before the radioactive leaks at the Fukushima plant. But following Fukushima, Mrs. Merkel on time scrapped her expansion plan, and declared a review.

Germany's nuclear industry has disagreed that an early close down would be largest destroying to the country's manufacturing capacity. Before March's suspension on the older power plants, Germany dependence on nuclear power for 23% of its energy.

The nuclear opposed force increased Germany's Green party, which obtained control of the Christian Democrat monopoly of Baden-Wuerttemberg, in late March. Shaun Burnie, nuclear counselor for environmental campaign group Greenpeace International, told that Germany had already consumed hugely in renewable energy.

"The different studies from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change illustrate that renewable could deliver, mostly, worldwide electricity by 2050," he said.

"Germany is going to be forwarded of the game on that and it is going to earn a huge money, so the message to Germany's manufacturers players is that you can base your energy plans not on nuclear, not on coal, but on renewable."