Overview
- CSU leader Markus Söder urged a policy shift to small modular reactors, framing them as “smarter” mini‑plants for affordable power.
- Reporting clarified that Canada has no operational SMRs, with preparatory work in Ontario targeting a first unit around 2030.
- SPD, Greens, and the Left rejected the plan, with SPD’s Nina Scheer calling SMRs an expensive, high‑risk technology that increases nuclear waste.
- AfD backed SMRs and went further by pressing to return the 2023‑shut plants Neckarwestheim II, Isar 2, and Emsland to service, citing possible renovations.
- Cost and feasibility doubts dominated the response, citing Hinkley Point’s projected €55 billion price tag and the halted NuScale project after steep overruns, alongside Germany’s unresolved waste repository and ongoing transports.