The German Greens have attacked the government’s continued funding of select nuclear research projects and demanded that in particular the funding of fusion research be terminated. The Greens want the government to intervene also on the EU level, where unlike Germany, whose fusion budget is 12% of the total in energy research and development, EU funding is about half of the total.
The ITER project was a “bottomless barrel absorbing billions of euros without being able to make a contribution to climate protection by 2050,“ the Greens charge. Green MP Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, head of the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety Committee of the Bundestag, who authored the statement, declared: “Instead of pumping billions into the uncertain fusion power, we have to push forward the transformation of our energy system with a comprehensive research strategy. This is the only way to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.”
