1. The Green and main opposition Socialist parties are pushing for a gradual phaseout.

2. It would far eclipse the nuclear phaseout in places like Germany and Japan.

3. With a phaseout or not, extending subsidies is just more of the same.

4. But many high-income taxpayers will be affected by the revival of the personal-exemption phaseout, or PEP.

5. Europe is deeply divided over nuclear power, with Germany announcing a phaseout of its plants following the Fukushima accident.