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Three lives transformed by Merkel: Ralf Gueldner, the nuclear lobbyist / V000_9MD9DR
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In her 16 years in power, Chancellor Angela Merkel took a leading role not only in charting Germany's course but influencing the path taken by Europe too. AFP has spoken to three people whose lives were upended by three of Merkel's most significant policy decisions. Ralf Gueldner was on a skiing holiday in the Swiss alps when he read over breakfast that an earthquake had hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. Less than a week after the disaster, in one of the biggest moments of her political career, Angela Merkel would dramatically turn her back on nuclear energy and the industry to which Gueldner had dedicated his life's work. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of Ralf Gueldner, Former President of the German Nuclear Forum