france v germany, page-2

GERMANY is facing power shortages and a winter blackout unless it restarts a mothballed nuclear plant, raising doubts over the government's plans to move the country away from atomic energy in the next decade.

Germany shut down seven ageing reactors and committed itself to phasing out all of its 17 reactors by 2022 in a move that would make it the first significant industrial power to turn its back on nuclear energy. But agency head Matthias Kurth said one of the plants now closed may have to be brought back on line.

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