This coming weekend marks the closing of the last three nuclear power plants in Germany, and that remains unpopular, reveals a poll conducted by daily news outlet Bild.

52% of respondents in the Insa poll maintain that pulling the plants from the country’s energy mix is a wrong decision.

37% believes that it is the right decision, while 11% is uncertain.

The last remaining nuclear power plants are Isar 2 in the state of Bavaria, Neckarwestheim in Baden-Württemberg and Emsland in Niedersachsen.

The decision to shut down operation on all German nuclear plants was made in 2011 when now-former chancellor Angela Merkel held office.

The decision was passed in the wake of the nuclear accident on the Fukushima plant in Japan in which a 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami which flooded the plant reactors and prompted a severe radioactive discharge.

Last year’s Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered an energy crisis in Germany and Europe. And that sparked rows in chancellor Olaf Scholz’ coalition government on whether to postpone shutting down the country’s last remaining nuclear power plants or not.

The liberal party FDP was in favor of extending operations while the Greens was fiercely against. FDP ended up on the loosing side of that power struggle.

Head of the opposition, Friedrich Merz from the conservative CDU, has recently slammed the decision to shut down the plants.

”I’m fairly certain that few other countries understand the decision to disconnect three secure, carbon neutral plants from Germany’s energy supply in the midst of the most significant energy crisis in years to favor coal and gas instead,” he says to news outlet Web.de News.

Member of the German Parliament for SPD Matthias Miersch calls for level-headedness.

”Nuclear partisans have painted vivid images of total blackouts every time a nuclear power plants has shut down.”

”But so far, our energy supply has remained unscathed,” says the parliamentarian.