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Nuclear repository at Chiemsee: Söder criticizes the search process - "Now we're giving Bavaria one to"

2020-09-29T12:51:08.277Z


The Federal Agency for Final Storage presented its results in the search for nuclear final storage on Monday. Many parts of Bavaria would be suitable for this.


The Federal Agency for Final Storage presented its results in the search for nuclear final storage on Monday.

Many parts of Bavaria would be suitable for this.

  • The Federal Agency for Final Storage has declared 90 areas in Germany to be suitable for nuclear waste disposal.

  • More than half of Bavaria could serve as a repository.

  • Bavarian politicians are angry about the results.

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- New round in the eternal dispute over a

nuclear waste repository

: The

Federal Association for Final Storage

(BGE) yesterday presented a map where a

repository

for

radioactive waste

would be possible

anywhere from the rock

.

The result:

90 areas in Germany

would be

suitable

as a

nuclear waste dump

for eternity - including more

Bavarian areas

than expected.

Gorleben fails as a nuclear waste repository

It

was to be expected

that the

Fichtel Mountains

and the

Bavarian Forest

with their solid

granite rocks

would be on the list.

But now the

Chiemsee region

even appears

on the map - specifically areas with claystone in the area around

Rosenheim

,

Mühldorf

and

Burghausen

.

In addition, according to the

BGE

in

Bavaria,

all areas north of a line are approximately at the level of

Augsburg *

and

Landshut

because there is

granite

in the ground here.

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These areas could be considered as potential nuclear repositories.

© dpa

In total,

54 percent of the area of ​​the Federal Republic is

theoretically suitable to accommodate the

1900 or so containers with nuclear waste

that are currently distributed in interim storage facilities in Germany.

74 areas are in salt rock, nine in clay rock and seven in crystalline rock, i.e. granite.

Of all

things

,

Gorleben

, the

salt dome

that

has been politically

planned and contested

as a

repository

for 43 years

, is not one of them:

BGE managing director Steffen Kanitz

justified this with inadequate retention capacity of the

salt dome

.

Two billion euros have already been invested

in

Gorleben

- for nothing.

Bavarian Environment Minister

Thorsten Glauber

(CDU) criticized: "The further process has no

Gorleben

a credibility problem."

Almost all of Bavaria could serve as a nuclear waste repository - Söder with criticism

Bavaria's Prime Minister

Markus Söder

is also skeptical about

the

search for a repository

, but stressed that there would be “no total blockade”.

However,

Söder

sharply criticized

the broad-based

search process

.

Almost two-thirds of

Bavaria have

now been declared sub-areas.

That will unsettle many people.

Lower Franconia

,

Upper Franconia

,

Middle Franconia

, the

Upper Palatinate

, and

Lower Bavaria

are completely in the selection,

Swabia

about half and

Upper Bavaria

is also massively affected.

#Bayern does not give a fundamental rejection of a #AtommuellEndlager ⚛️, says the Bavarian Prime Minister @Markus_Soeder.

But the country does not want to volunteer.

He criticizes the @gruene_bayern who, in his opinion, “ingratiate”.

@csu #nuclear energy pic.twitter.com/58hPb3Iz5J

- phoenix (@phoenix_de) September 28, 2020

The

CSU boss

demanded that no politically motivated decision should be made according to the motto: "Now let's give the

Bavarians

one." He confirmed the assessment of the

CSU *

that

no location

in

Bavaria was

an option.

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder also found clear words at the recently held CSU party conference.

Bavaria's

criticism

does not play a role

for the

BGE

, countered

BGE managing director Stefan Studt

: “Mr.

Glauber

may

or may not like that.

We work purely scientifically. ”The fact that

Bavaria is

now criticizing the selection of rugged granite rock is surprising, after all,

Bavaria

has also

repeatedly agreed to

the nationwide

search

process, says

Studt

.

In fact, it was the then Prime Minister

Horst Seehofer

who agreed to the procedure in 2013 to search for purely scientific criteria.

The

Free Voters

criticize that

Seehofer

did this so that he would get “the naive election campaign hit foreigner's toll” in return: “

Seehofer

sold

our home

Bavaria

for a 'lentil dish',

” said FW parliamentary group leader

Florian Streibl

.

The district administrator of Rosenheim says that the Chiemsee could come into question as a nuclear repository

In fact, the information from the Federal Agency for Final Storage surprised me very much today.

However, I would like to say that we are only at the beginning of a long process here.

Almost 40,000 people live in the affected communities in the Rosenheim district.

With the Eggstätt-Hemhofer Seenplatte, the oldest nature reserve in Bavaria is located in this sub-area.

I think that after assessing all of these criteria, this environment is no longer considered as a repository.

Otto Lederer (CSU), District Administrator of Rosenheim

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

List of rubric lists: © dpa / Sven Hoppe

Source: merkur

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