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Germany was due to strike a deal. yesterday to close down its 19 nuclear power plants, making it the first major industrial nation to commit to withdrawing from nuclear energy.
    Talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s government and the chiefs of the German energy industry were to begin at 8:30 pm.
    Closure of Germany’s 19 reactors, which provide around a third of the country’s clectricity needs, was a key pledge of the Greens, the junior partner in Schroeder’s coalition government.