Nuclear power in Germany
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Nuclear power was used in Germany from the 1960s until it was phased out in April 2023.
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German nuclear power began with research reactors in the 1950s and 1960s, with the first commercial plant coming online in 1969. By 1990, nuclear power accounted for about a quarter of the electricity produced in the country.
The anti-nuclear movement in Germany has a long history dating back to the early 1970s and intensified following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.[1][2][3] After the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and subsequent anti-nuclear protests, the government announced that it would close all of its nuclear power plants by 2022.[4][5] Eight of the seventeen operating reactors in Germany were permanently shut down following Fukushima.
Nuclear power accounted for 13.3% of German electricity supply in 2021,[6] supplied by six power plants. Three of these were switched off at the end of 2021, and the other three ceased operations by April 2023.[7][8]