The Greens co-chairman Ricarda Lang has rejected a return to nuclear power.

Lang said on Sunday in the ZDF summer interview with a view to statements by Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), according to which nuclear power plants would have to remain online until 2024 if necessary: ​​"What Christian Lindner wants there is nothing more than getting back into nuclear power.

And that will definitely not happen with us.”

Lang complained about the "lack of seriousness" in the debate.

It is a high-risk technology.

Many people worried about the gas supply and energy supply.

But people would have to be given answers that actually fit the problem.

The gas-fired power plants in Germany are only used to a very small extent to generate electricity and could only be replaced by nuclear power to a very small extent.

"We have a heat problem, not a power problem," Lang said.

Criticism of Markus Söder

Lang made it clear that she wanted to wait for a second stress test on the security of the electricity supply in Germany.

Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) also wants to wait for the results of this test, which according to the ministry should be available in the next few weeks.

The Greens co-chairman said that the nuclear debate was being led by those who had failed to expand renewable energies and shirked the debates about saving energy - such as Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU).

"For example, I expect Markus Söder, I actually expect everyone who got us into this situation, that they finally become part of a solution," she said, referring to the Union, which led the federal government for 16 years before the traffic light government of SPD, Greens and FDP came to power in 2021.

For weeks there have been demands, especially from the Union and the FDP, for the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany to continue operating beyond the end of the year.

Finance Minister Lindner told the "Bild am Sonntag": "There are many arguments in favor of not shutting down the safe and climate-friendly nuclear power plants, but using them until 2024 if necessary."