General view of the nuclear power plant that will be dismantled in Muelheim-Kaerlich, Germany, May 22, 2017. — Reuters picBERLIN, March 5 — Germany will pay energy companies a total of €2.4 billion in compensation for its decision to exit nuclear energy in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, Berlin said today.
They added that Berlin would pay a total of €2.428 billion compensation to the four companies, all of which operate nuclear power plants in Germany. The plan was met with widespread public support in a country with a powerful anti-nuclear movement, fuelled first by fears of a Cold War conflict and then by disasters such as Chernobyl.
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