FRANKFURT: The following table lists outages at German nuclear power plants. It gives dates for previous outages, plants returning online and planned shutdowns.
Nuclear figures are available because operators must notify the public about their status under safety laws.
There are now 2,744 MW offline, or 21.6 percent of the total capacity.
Germany took the axe to the bulk of its nuclear capacity in the summer of 2011, switching off the seven oldest blocks plus Vattenfall's Kruemmel permanently after the Japan nuclear crisis earlier last year raised safety concerns.
German policymakers agreed to leave the 8,821 MW represented by the eight blocks offline when a three-month moratorium, imposed in March, expired at the end of June 2011.
The new installed total number Of 12,696 MW was confirmed by engineering group VGB.
Prior to the Fukushima crisis, the German (gross) nuclear capacity count had amounted to 21,500 MW.
The latest policy plan also reversed longer nuclear life cycles granted to the remaining nuclear power stations in the autumn of 2010 and aims to phase them out by the end of 2022.
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