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The German nuclear power phase-out 鈥渨ill not be revised鈥� as a result of the current gas supply crisis, the co-leader of the governing Social Democrats (SPD), Saskia Esken, has said. 鈥淕ermany decided to exit nuclear power 20 years ago in a great societal consensus,鈥� Esken said in . 鈥淭here were good reasons for it then and these continue to exist鈥�. Referring to to the SPD鈥檚 government coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), whose leader, finance minister Christian Lindner, has called for a new debate on nuclear power鈥檚 future in the country, Esken said it is perfectly normal for coalition partners to disagree on individual issues, but stressed that nuclear power did not even figure in coalition talks. Esken said the so-called 'stress test' that is currently being run by the economy and climate ministry to assess whether the country鈥檚 three remaining reactors need to help stabilise the grid in case of a severe gas shortage would help clarify whether any of the plants will continue to run after the scheduled end date on 31 December. If this happened, they would be put聽 in a 鈥渟tretch-out operation鈥� mode for several months that would not entail procurement of new nuclear fuel rods. 鈥淎 use of the remaining plants until 2024 or even beyond that for me is out of the question,鈥� she said. Esken added that the FDP has already amended Germany鈥檚 nuclear exit plans in the past, as part of a coalition with Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance formed in 2009 鈥� a change later taken back after the Fukushima disaster, which cost German taxpayers billions of euros. 鈥淯sually, one should learn something when they鈥檝e burnt their fingers,鈥� the SPD leader said.

Chancellor Scholz said on Wednesday that he is also waiting for the test鈥檚 results, which are expected by the end of August. He argued that continuing to let individual plants run for a limited period of time 鈥渃ould make sense鈥� in regions where sufficient renewable power capacity is still lacking, for example in the southern state of Bavaria. However, Scholz stressed that nuclear power is not currently helping some EU states to overcome electricity shortages and that Germany is assisting them with power exports.

Meanwhile, the leader of Germany鈥檚 conservative CDU opposition, Friedrich Merz, and Bavaria鈥檚 conservative CSU state premier Markus S枚der planned to visit one of the remaining nuclear reactors, Isar 2 near Munich, on Thursday, in a bid to express their support for extending the plant鈥檚 runtime, newspaper Die Welt . S枚der said the government must position itself quickly, arguing 鈥渄ecisions need to be made now.鈥� At the local level, the SPD and the Green Party in Munich both support the idea of extending Isar 2鈥檚 runtime for several months, public broadcaster BR. The Bavarian capital鈥檚 mayor, Dieter Reiter from the SPD, has said he will call on the government to allow a limited extension for the reactor 鈥渘o longer than the middle of next year.鈥�