Six castors are to be transported to Biblis in Hesse over the weekend.
Protest is forming - the police have also spoken out against it.
Biblis / Nordenham - Shortly before the "
November lockdown
"
comes
into force,
the police are pulling together a large contingent.
Six
castors are
expected
in Lower Saxony and will
initially arrive in the Netherlands on a special ship from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in the UK.
For tactical reasons, the
police
did not disclose any details.
Nuclear opponents
have already started protests.
And the police union is also rather critical of the venture - in the midst of a pandemic, the transport is irresponsible.
Protests against Castor transport: Containers should be transported to Biblis by rail
The special ship with six
castors
started on Tuesday.
It is supposed to head for a German seaport.
Opponents of nuclear power assumed that this will be the
port of Nordenham in Lower Saxony
over the course of the weekend
.
According to the Castor-Stopp alliance, the transport train for the
nuclear waste
, which is to travel by rail to the interim storage facility in Biblis in southern Hesse
, is already
there.
A lot of police officers were present in Nordenham on Saturday.
Nuclear opponents and environmentalists wanted to gather for protest actions.
Almost 40 activists came to a demonstration in the afternoon.
Due to international obligations, Germany has to
take back
its
nuclear waste that has been
reprocessed abroad
.
Even today, the reprocessing plants in La Hague in France and in Sellafield in the UK are still storing Castoren with radioactive waste from German nuclear power plants.
Criticism of Castor transport: environmental groups protest - the police criticize the date
There has been criticism of the transport from many sides.
Environmentalists see deficiencies in the Biblis interim storage facility and safety deficits in the nuclear waste containers.
"There is the problem of insufficient protection against terrorist attacks," said Greenpeace nuclear expert Heinz Smital.
In addition, the repair concept in the interim storage facility in Biblis in southern Hesse is inadequate.
The chairman of the
Federation for Environment and Nature Protection
, Olaf Bandt, said: "Despite the worsening Corona situation dangerous highly radioactive nuclear waste in the insecure
interim storage facility in Biblis
to be transported, is negligent and irresponsible danger to human life." The
Union of Police (GdP)
called for the transport to be stopped.
The use of thousands of police officers in the face of the pandemic is unnecessary, risky and disproportionate.
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- GdP Federal Police (@GBundespolizei) October 29, 2020
The
Society for Interim
Storage
(BGZ), which is responsible
for the storage of the
highly radioactive nuclear waste
, rejected concerns about safety and repair options.
"We are prepared for all conceivable repair scenarios," said spokesman Burghard Rosen.
The dangers of a plane crash had also been examined.
(dpa)