Berlin. .- Several thousand Germans demanded today in dozens of demonstrations across the country the immediate abandonment of nuclear energy during the traditional Easter protests, which were recalled Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters. Concentrations, full of symbols and antinuclear banners urging the government to "turn off" the country's nuclear power plants took place in a dozen nuclear sites and facilities in several major German cities.
More than 10,000 people, according to police estimates, marched to central Grohnde in the state of Lower Saxony (northwest), accompanied by more than a hundred vehicles and a convoy of tractors. Together with the central Grafenrheinfeld (south), several thousand people remembered the tragedy of Chernobyl (Ukraine), which tomorrow celebrates its silver jubilee.
Today is the fourth consecutive day of the traditional Easter peace marches in Germany, focusing on this issue in the "nuclear blackout" and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The catastrophe of Fukushima (Japan), coupled with the upcoming anniversary of the Chernobyl reached that calls to abandon atomic energy dominate over the other pacifist slogans.
Easter peace marches in Germany are about 50 years of history and, although they became massive in the decades to the 70 and 80 in the western half, lost after the Cold War call ability. The executive of Chancellor Angela Merkel backed down, just days after the accident in Fukushima, his plan to extend the lifetime of the 17 German reactors.
In addition to ordering the immediate removal of the seven older plants, the government then passed a moratorium of three months to draw the roadmap for the abandonment of this source of energy. The Social Democrat-Green government of Gerhard Schröder, Ms Merkel's predecessor, negotiated in 2000 with the industry a gradual abandonment of nuclear energy, so that the last reactor was shut down in 2022.
This calendar was respected in Merkel's first term, in coalition with the Social Democrats, but not after his re-election and forming a new government with the Liberals. A few months ago, the center-right coalition of Merkel agreed to extend an average of 12 years the period of activity of the reactors, the law now overturned under the impact of the disaster in Japan. 
More than 10,000 people, according to police estimates, marched to central Grohnde in the state of Lower Saxony (northwest), accompanied by more than a hundred vehicles and a convoy of tractors. Together with the central Grafenrheinfeld (south), several thousand people remembered the tragedy of Chernobyl (Ukraine), which tomorrow celebrates its silver jubilee.
Today is the fourth consecutive day of the traditional Easter peace marches in Germany, focusing on this issue in the "nuclear blackout" and the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. The catastrophe of Fukushima (Japan), coupled with the upcoming anniversary of the Chernobyl reached that calls to abandon atomic energy dominate over the other pacifist slogans.
Easter peace marches in Germany are about 50 years of history and, although they became massive in the decades to the 70 and 80 in the western half, lost after the Cold War call ability. The executive of Chancellor Angela Merkel backed down, just days after the accident in Fukushima, his plan to extend the lifetime of the 17 German reactors.
In addition to ordering the immediate removal of the seven older plants, the government then passed a moratorium of three months to draw the roadmap for the abandonment of this source of energy. The Social Democrat-Green government of Gerhard Schröder, Ms Merkel's predecessor, negotiated in 2000 with the industry a gradual abandonment of nuclear energy, so that the last reactor was shut down in 2022.
This calendar was respected in Merkel's first term, in coalition with the Social Democrats, but not after his re-election and forming a new government with the Liberals. A few months ago, the center-right coalition of Merkel agreed to extend an average of 12 years the period of activity of the reactors, the law now overturned under the impact of the disaster in Japan.
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