FILE – Smoke rises from the nuclear power plant of Nerckarwestheim in Neckarwestheim, Germany, Aug. 22, 2022. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ordered ministers Monday Oct. 17, 2022, to prepare to keep all of the country’s three remaining nuclear plants running until mid-April, putting his foot down on an issue that had threatened to split his three-party government. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)