Subject: ?Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power ?A Strategic Mistake?

?Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power ?A Strategic
Mistake? ? 15 Years After Supporting the Nuclear Phase-Out?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/11/ursula-von-der-leyen-calls-abandoning-nuclear-power-a-strategic-mistake-15-years-after-supporting-the-nuclear-phase-out/

?In 2011, when Angela Merkel decided that Germany had to phase out
nuclear power because things like earthquakes and tsunamis happen in
Japan, Ursula von der Leyen was Labour Minister and also vice-chair of
the CDU. In an interview with the S�ddeutsche Zeitung, von der Leyen
defended Merkel?s decision, insisting that her government had ?to
respond to the new developments?: the Fukushima disaster, she said, had
shown everyone ?that the unthinkable has now become possible ? a
worst-case accident in a high-technology country?.?

?Germany has spent the years since 2011 systematically shutting down its
own nuclear reactors and also lobbying other European nations to do the
same. Thanks to this very dumb policy which von der Leyen openly
supported, our power has got a lot more expensive and our industry a lot
less competitive.?

?Today, von der Leyen is President of the European Commission, and she
has decided that maybe the phase-out wasn?t such a great idea after all.
Far from abandoning nuclear energy, she now wants the EU to be become a world-leading ?pioneer in nuclear technology?:?

Translated today, she needs another payoff.

Lynn


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