Energy transition in the balance? Top managers of nuclear power by 2022 to doubt

Former CEO Juergen Hambrecht BASF questioned whether the nuclear phase-out achieved by 2022, and has an extension of maturities of individual nuclear power plants put into play. "If we soon found that we do not succeed the turn as fast as we thought, there must be an adjustment," Hambrecht said in an interview to the news magazine "Focus".

Perhaps the experience of the next few months showed that the nuclear phase does not succeed until 2022. Even if this were the case, perhaps some nuclear power plants would have to run longer than you expect. Hambrecht urged: "We need more time - for electric vehicles, for the memory, the network expansion. This is not everything overnight. "Former BASF Chairman was one of the few advocates of nuclear power a year ago, appointed by the federal government in the ethics committee for energy policy.

With the implementation of the transformation is not satisfied Hambrecht. "We need less chatter and more zest" and called for a project management: "We need faster decisions and faster implementation. This must lie in one hand. "Coordinated good faith does not suffice.

"Of all the things we had then discussed as a result, until now only a very, very small proportion has been tackled." Hambrecht to "Focus": ". How complicated the quick exit is really, all the parties underestimated," he recalled remember that the next nuclear power plants will be shut down as early as 2015, 2017, 2019th "Until then we must provide compensation."