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Germany will close its last nuclear reactor in 2022, becoming the first industrial power renouncing atomic energy, the environment minister said Monday.

Most of the 17 German nuclear reactors will be decommissioned by the end of 2011 and the last three, most recently, will operate until the end of 2022 at the latest, said the minister, Norbert Roettgen, who described this decision as is "irreversible" at the end of negotiations within the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Germany has 17 nuclear reactors on its territory, of which eight are currently not connected to electricity production. These eight reactors will not be reactivated, the minister added.

Germany will have to agree, by the end of 2022, a way to cover 22 percent of its total electricity currently supplied by nuclear plants.

Final Stop of the 17 German nuclear reactors by 2022 is virtually a return to the timetable in early 2000 by a coalition of Social Democrats and environmentalists.

German Chancellor in late 2010 resulted in an extension of the vote with 12 years average duration of statutory operating reactors country against the will of public opinion, thereby causing increased antinuclear sentiment in Germany.

After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, in March, Merkel oldest plants immediately stopped and began a reflection on civil nuclear abandonment, to complete a formal decision within the Council of Ministers of 6 June.

"The sooner we abandon atomic energy, the more it will be better, "said Chancellor on 23 March.

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