Litigation plans to fight waste at nuke site
Gundremmingen was the biggest of three nukes for which licences to store spent fuel were granted on 19 December, says the FORUM.
The FORUM says 370 people have now joined together ready to resort to court action to safeguard their health and environment interests and for several more years of resistance. A number of towns, communities and associations had also joined. The FORUM will provide expert, legal, financial and political support to a group of plaintiffs.
“RWE and EON as owners of the Gundremmingen nuclear power stations had agreed with the licensing authority, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), that ‘only’ 1,850 tonnes of spent fuel rods be licensed to begin with. Otherwise the ground water would have been warmed up too much in the first few years. All the arguments how dangerous new nuclear waste depots are were not taken into account,” says the FORUM’s statement.
“In 20 - 30 years the operators could then get the originally intended 2,250 tonnes licensed with a changing permit. But even the waste permit reduced in size by 18% means that Swabia will get the storage with the most radioactivity in Germany.”
“Even 37 years after the first German atomic power station, Block A in Gundremmingen, began operation in December 1966, the safe disposal of waste fatally radioactive for 100,000 years is unresolved,” says the group. “One just keep building high-risk parking places.”
The group notes that already in the late 1970s Social Democrat Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, had declared the atomic disposal question solved. His successor, Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl then said on 4 May in a policy statement: “Disposal must be and will be realised quickly.” The Kohl government announced that by 2000 a final storage would be in operation. The present Social Democrat – Greens goverhnjment promises a final repository by 2030.
“So far there is not final repository for this radioactive waste deadly for more than 100,000 years. None of the concepts so far can guarantee safely to lock in this life-threatening waste.”
The FORUM accuses the BfS of again breaking pledges with the new licenses. It quotes a statement to Spiegel magazine (41/2001) that “it can hardly be argued to the population in southern Germany why they should be worse protected against aircraft crashes than people in the north.” This was declared by the BfS chairman, Wolfram König, a member of The Greens.
“Despite this,” says the FORUM, “euphemistically labelled” interim storages were again being licensed in south Germany that would have only a thin wall and where only Castor caskets were to lock in the deadly waste.
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The FORUM says 370 people have now joined together ready to resort to court action to safeguard their health and environment interests and for several more years of resistance. A number of towns, communities and associations had also joined. The FORUM will provide expert, legal, financial and political support to a group of plaintiffs.
“RWE and EON as owners of the Gundremmingen nuclear power stations had agreed with the licensing authority, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), that ‘only’ 1,850 tonnes of spent fuel rods be licensed to begin with. Otherwise the ground water would have been warmed up too much in the first few years. All the arguments how dangerous new nuclear waste depots are were not taken into account,” says the FORUM’s statement.
“In 20 - 30 years the operators could then get the originally intended 2,250 tonnes licensed with a changing permit. But even the waste permit reduced in size by 18% means that Swabia will get the storage with the most radioactivity in Germany.”
“Even 37 years after the first German atomic power station, Block A in Gundremmingen, began operation in December 1966, the safe disposal of waste fatally radioactive for 100,000 years is unresolved,” says the group. “One just keep building high-risk parking places.”
The group notes that already in the late 1970s Social Democrat Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, had declared the atomic disposal question solved. His successor, Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl then said on 4 May in a policy statement: “Disposal must be and will be realised quickly.” The Kohl government announced that by 2000 a final storage would be in operation. The present Social Democrat – Greens goverhnjment promises a final repository by 2030.
“So far there is not final repository for this radioactive waste deadly for more than 100,000 years. None of the concepts so far can guarantee safely to lock in this life-threatening waste.”
The FORUM accuses the BfS of again breaking pledges with the new licenses. It quotes a statement to Spiegel magazine (41/2001) that “it can hardly be argued to the population in southern Germany why they should be worse protected against aircraft crashes than people in the north.” This was declared by the BfS chairman, Wolfram König, a member of The Greens.
“Despite this,” says the FORUM, “euphemistically labelled” interim storages were again being licensed in south Germany that would have only a thin wall and where only Castor caskets were to lock in the deadly waste.
http://www.atommuell-zwischenlager.de/ kontakte@atommuell-zwischenlager.de
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