Activists warn against nuclear renaissance

Diet Simon 02.01.2007 14:11 Themen: Atom
Germany's supreme court will have to rule whether interim storage of nuclear waste is legal as activists vow to fight against the “propaganda of a renaissance of atomic power” this year. “We must keep making clear in the public awareness that atomic waste is illegally produced and kept in interim storages.”
German activists warn against “renaissance of nuclear power”

German nuclear opponents want to fight against the “propaganda of a renaissance of atomic power” in the new year.

“We must keep making clear in the public awareness that atomic waste is illegally produced and kept in interim storages,” the chairman of the Anti-Atom-Bürgerinitiative Süddeutschland (South German Anti-Nuclear Citizens Initiative), Raimund Kamm, told the news agency dpa.

He recalled that last year the group had managed to take the storage of nuclear waste into the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s supreme court.

Now Germany’s highest court would have to make a precedent ruling about interim storage of nuclear waste, Kamm said.

“The operators of nuclear power stations are trying to talk up a renaissance of nuclear power,” he said, and it was feared that the operating times of German nuclear stations could be extended.

Under an agreement reached between power companies and the previous government, nuclear power production is to end in Germany in 2021. The present government is trying to undo that pact.

Kamm pointed out that currently 437 nuclear power stations are operating in the world and 29 new ones are being built.

Nuclear opponents argue that nuclear energy production, which produces radioactive leftovers, is not needed.

“We have the triple-E alternative,” Kamm said, “save energy, use energy more efficiently and produce energy from renewable sources.”

With more that 650 members, the Anti-Atom-Bürgerinitiative is the biggest anti-nuclear group in southern Germany, Kamm claims.

Apart from ending nuclear power production it also demands a speed limit on German autobahns as part of an ecological climate protection policy.
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