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Earthquake in Japan destroy the cooling system at Nuclear power plant causing a lot of danger for the Japanese residents. This disaster is putting a lot of pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Can someone tell me that why is that happening? How is German Chancellor Angela Merkel responsible for that?
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Less than two weeks before a key state election when nuclear power, which polls show a majority of Germans oppose, is set to figure highly, the opposition, environmentalists and the media piled pressure on the chancellor. “We have to realise that the era not only of cheap oil but also of nuclear power is over,” Sigmar Gabriel, head of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. He said that although Germany was not in an seismic zone like Japan, which is battling to control two overheating reactors after Friday’s quake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems, Germany’s reactors were still at risk. “People are making the mistake a bit in the current debate of seeing the earthquake as the problem. The problem is the power cut,” Gabriel said on ARD public television. Germany decided in 2000 under the SPD and the ecologist Greens to switch off the last of its 17 nuclear power stations by 2020, but Merkel’s government in 2010 postponed the exit until the mid-2030s, despite strong public unease.
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