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by awaythrow98765 1162 days ago
2 of the 3 currently governing parties made up the coalition that first decided to end nuclear back in 2001. The later conservative Merkel government just first extended reactor life-times just to go back on its word and shorten them again when Fukushima happened.

But all the big parties and their politicians had a hand in the current desaster, people are quit right to blame all the last 25 years' governments.