The 15th of April 2023 marks the end of Germany's 60-year-old nuclear history – right in the middle of a global energy crisis. The country had to fire up old coal plants to secure energy supply in the past year, while other countries continued to build more nuclear power plants. Was pulling out of nuclear energy a huge mistake?

Credits:
Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer
Video editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editors: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Michael Trobridge

Special thanks to: Nicolas Wendler, Hans Smital, Christian von Hirschhausen, Rainer Klute and Simon Müller for interviews that could not make it into the video.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:01 History
02:15 The debate restarts
04:38 The case for nuclear
08:45 Cost and safety
11:45 Conclusion