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Germany was due to strike a deal yesterday to close down its 19 nuclear power plants, making it tile first major industrial nation to commit to withdrawing from nuclear energy. Talks between Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s government and chiefs of German energy industry were to begin at 8:30 p.m. . Closure of German 19 reactors, which provided around a third of the country’s electricity needs, was a key play to the greens, the junior partner assured the coalition government.