BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 15: Bavarian Governor Horst Seehofer looks on during a statement following a hastily-called for meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the leaders of Germany's six affected states at the Chancellery over the future of the country's 17 nuclear power plants on March 15, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel has announced a radical reversal in the German government's recent policy on nuclear energy following the current growing disaster at the Fukushima facility in Japan. Merkel said the government would temporarily halt the operation of seven older German nuclear power plants in order to conduct thorough safety checks, which comes on top of the suspension of plans to extend the operating lifespan of some of Germany's older nuclear plants. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)
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