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.
Peine
- 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.
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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
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