It was the motto of the anti-nuclear power movement in the seventies and eighties: “Nuclear power?
No thanks! ”The slogan with a red sun in the middle adorned countless bumper stickers and buttons.
And even today it shapes the awareness of Germans who are very critical of nuclear energy.
As a survey by Finanzwende Recherche showed, 82 percent reject nuclear power as a component of sustainable investments.
Markus Frühauf
Editor in business.
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The German government also takes this position in Brussels, where the Commission and the federal states are fighting over which energy sources can be classified as sustainable for the transition.
France and Eastern European countries rely on nuclear power, which has the advantage of being CO2-neutral.
After the nuclear phase-out, Germany is against it, but it does not necessarily have a clean slate.
Because gas power plants are supposed to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy.
In terms of carbon dioxide emissions, however, these perform worse than nuclear power plants.
Only 15 percent for it
Now Finanzwende Recherche, which as a non-profit limited company of the citizens' movement of the same name takes care of consumer protection, education and research, has commissioned a survey among 1009 German citizens.
82 percent were of the opinion that an investment in which money is also invested in nuclear power cannot be classified as sustainable.
15 percent were of the opposite opinion: They consider such investments to be sustainable.
The remaining three percent had no opinion on this.
The EU Commission wants to decide in autumn whether nuclear and gas power can be classified as sustainable.
The question has been excluded from the previous definitions of the criteria, in the so-called taxonomy, because of the different views in the member states.