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EXPLAINER: Why Germany is delaying its nuclear shutdown

Demonstrators march in front of the Brandenburg Gate, background, during a demonstration against nuclear power in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, May 28, 2011. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer) FILE - Exterior view of the RWE nuclear power plant 'Emsland' in Lingen, western Germany, March 18, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file) FILE --Water vapor rises from the cooling tower of nuclear power plant of Neckarwestheim in Neckarwestheim, Germany, Aug. 22, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst,file) FILE - A little kite is pictured during a protest event of anti-nuclear activists in front of the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, June 6, 2011. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) FILE - Hundreds of anti nuclear protesters block the rails near Hitzacker, northern Germany, Nov.7, 2010 . A castor train with nuclear waste is underway from French La Hague to to the nuclear interim storage plant in nearby Gorleben. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) FILE - Environmental activists of Greenpeace and the "Koala Kollektiv" protest against the European Union's greenwashing of nuclear energy under the Euro sculpture in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 11, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File) FILE - A man with a gas mask protests near the chancellery against nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster in Berlin, March 26, 2011. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File) FILE - This time German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a news conference about German government suspending the decision to extend the life of its nuclear power plants for about three month, in Berlin, Germany,, March 14, 2011. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File) German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, walks through the foyer of the chancellery to welcome Spain's King Felipe VI for a meeting, Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) FILE - The nuclear power plant (NPP) Isar 2 is pictured in Essenbach, Germany, March 3, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered preparations for all of the country's three remaining nuclear reactors to continue operating until mid-April 2023. The move marks another hiccup in the country's long-running plan to end the use of atomic energy. (Armin Weigel/dpa via AP, File)