of the disaster are still painfully apparent nuclear power appears to be there to stay. now for more on this let's bring in claudia comfort she heads the energy transportation and environment department of the german institute for economic research in berlin and correspondent sagna blasko she joins us from tokyo sana let me start with you it has been a they of morning in japan tell us more on how the country has been commemorating this crucial day well during the day a lot of people lends to the seaside they broke flowers they got their hands together in prayer and. i mean it's been a very tough and emotional day for many people i think. it's you know it's not ending here also because of the nuclear plans especially that people think that there is for them this with will be a much longer story. here in berlin as we heard before his human disaster has led to the government's decision to phase out nuclear power tell us on what that has meant to europe's biggest economy. well it meant that we now have a concrete deadline so in the next 2 years is. still in place nuclear power plants would be shut down and we increased so germany has increased the sheriff renewable energy jessica lee and to substitute it but we have time now to deco