Germany's Nuclear Era Comes to an End as Bavaria Considers Reopening Plant Under State Control.

Bavarian Premier Markus Söder has proposed that his state could take control of the Isar 2 nuclear power plant, which was permanently taken off the grid along with two other remaining power stations. Söder has been a critic of Germany's decision to transition away from nuclear energy and has called for an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act to hand control of nuclear power from the federal to the state level. However, Germany's three-party governing coalition committed to ending the country's reliance on nuclear power when it took office in December 2021, making Söder's call unlikely to be heeded.