On April 15, Germany proceeded to shut down the three remaining nuclear power plants in the country as Berlin seems poised to continue its transition to renewable energy generation.
As reactors are being disconnected from the German power grid and shut down, the radioactive materials that were used to fuel these plants will be kept in spent fuel pools for a few years before being moved to interim storage facilities.This development takes place as Germany finds itself in a precarious situation energy-wise, with fuel prices soaring as the country finds itself cut off from cheap Russian oil and gas due to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines and thanks to the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the EU over the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
