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Nuclear Power: Söder Wants to Split Atoms? Let Him!

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Bavaria's Prime Minister demands (again) mini-core power plants in Germany. Please don't upset! Because it would be worth a try – on one condition.

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Bavaria's Prime Minister demands (again) mini-core power plants in Germany. Please don't upset! Because it would be worth a try – on one condition.

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Three years after Germany's nuclear phase-out, Markus Söder has brought the issue back into the political arena. While the Bavarian Minister-President supports mini-nuclear power plants, Chancellor Friedrich Merz opposes them. At the EU level, there are plans to promote mini-nuclear power plants. But are they even economically viable?

Small Modular Reactors are seen by Bavaria's Minister-President as a path to greater energy independence. But how economical are mini nuclear power plants? A fact check.

According to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder is now also calling for a return to nuclear energy. The re-entry is not to take place via conventional large-scale power plants, but through the use of novel modular reactors. If not for the German government. This contribution Nuclear Power 2.0 So Söder makes itself strong for new reactors was published on JUNGE FREETHING.

Bavaria wants to use small modular reactors (SMRs) in the future and is ready to participate in a pilot project to operate them. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder, who has long called for Germany to return to nuclear power generation, told the Sunday edition of the tabloid Bild. Chancellor Friedrich Merz last week called the move away from nuclear energy a mistake, but an irreversible one. Left-wing parties criticized Söder's statement on Mon…

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echo24.cz broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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