Germans Reach Nuclear Energy Deal

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

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Wednesday December 23 7:36 PM ET 

BONN, Germany (AP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder 
and his Greens party allies sought Wednesday to smooth over 
their first major disagreement, agreeing compromise was needed to 
reach a deal on phasing out nuclear energy.  

The Social Democratic chancellor had publicly rebuked his Green 
environment minister, Juergen Trittin, on Tuesday for firing the 
government's two advisory panels on nuclear safety without 
clearing it first with him.  

Schroeder later told German television that both parties in his 
government are committed to closing Germany's nuclear power 
plants, but the question of how has yet to be decided.  

Trittin also stressed the importance of compromise, and said the 
elimination of nuclear power would happen only with ``a
sound and broad consensus.''

The center-left coalition is to meet Jan. 13 to hammer out a 
common strategy for talks with the nuclear industry, which begin 
Jan. 26.  

If a voluntary timetable for shutting down the country's 19 nuclear 
power plants is not agreed to within a year, the government has 
pledged to legislate a plan.  



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