In March 2013, Angela Merkel ordered the three-month closure of the Biblis Nuclear Power Plant as an immediate response to the Fukushima accident.

Nevertheless, the units are now indefinitely shut down, due to the government's later decision to phase out all nuclear power (Atomausstieg).

On 17 December 1987, an incident (INES 1) occurred: Operators overlooked a stop valve that had not been closed.

The radioactive primary cooling water discharged for a short time into the annular space.

The incident became public one year later, when an article in an American technical periodical (Nucleonic Weeks) was published.