In the discussion about an extended use of German nuclear power plants, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Economics Minister Mona Neubaur (Greens) is skeptical. In a possible gas shortage, nuclear power plants could only make a contribution of 0.2 to 0.9 percent, said the minister on Thursday in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”. She referred to studies according to which the demand for gas would fall only slightly if electricity from nuclear reactors were used instead of gas-fired power plants.