BERLIN (dpa-AFX) - A majority of Germans are critical of the nuclear phase-out planned for Saturday, according to polls. Significantly more than half (59 percent) consider the decision by politicians to be wrong, while only around a third (34 percent) consider it to be right, according to the Deutschlandtrend survey for ARD's "Morgenmagazin" television program.

According to the Infratest-Dimap survey, there is overwhelming support for the end of nuclear power exclusively in the 18 to 34 age group (50 to 39 percent), while rejection predominates among the middle and older age groups.

Among party supporters, the move is viewed differently: While party supporters of the Greens (82 percent) and the SPD (56 percent) welcome the end of nuclear energy, supporters of the CDU/CSU (83 percent) and AfD (81 percent) are almost unanimously opposed. The majority of FDP supporters (65 percent) also vote against a phase-out.

On Saturday, the three remaining nuclear power plants in Germany are to be

- Isar 2 in Bavaria, Emsland in Lower Saxony and Neckarwestheim 2 in

Baden-Württemberg - are to be finally taken off the grid. This was actually supposed to happen at the end of last year. However, because of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the energy crisis it triggered, last year, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) put his foot down, the coalition government decided to keep the three reactors running through the winter./ddb/DP/zb