Ase - Newspaper: Neighbors against land sale for interim storage
Multiple residents of the dilapidated Atom Mill-Storage facility Asse refuse to make their land available for the construction of an Interim Storage Facility, according to a report in the "Braunschweiger Zeitung." An Interim Storage Facility is necessary for the legally regulated retrieval of the Atom Mill from the dilapidated shaft in Remlingen near Wolfenbüttel, as per statements from the Federal Environment Ministry.
The responsible Federal Company for Nuclear Waste Disposal BGE has so far only acquired four of the necessary ten hectares, the newspaper reports. The main issue is with two residents who refuse to sell. Expropriation is legally impossible.
The containers with weak- and medium-radioactive waste stored in the Asse must be "retrieved all the latest by 2033," Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) recently stated during a site visit. Water is seeping into the shaft from the outside, which has created new paths within the shaft for unclear reasons since the beginning of the year.
In the shaft, there are 13 chambers containing approximately 126,000 containers with weak- and medium-radioactive waste, which were stored there in the 60s and 70s. Due to the Asse being considered unstable for years, the containers need to be retrieved. They are to be collected and then further distributed in an above-ground Interim Storage Facility. Residents fear that the waste will remain permanently in the new facility being constructed.
- The Federal Company for Storage, responsible for managing Atomic waste storage in Germany, is facing challenges in acquiring land for an Interim Storage Facility in Asse, as reported by the Brunswick Newspaper.
- The Federal Ministry for the Environment has emphasized the importance of constructing an Interim Storage Facility to legally retrieve Atomic energy waste from the dilapidated shaft in Remlingen, Lower Saxony.
- The delay in acquiring necessary land for the Interim Storage Facility is causing concern, as the Containers with weak- and medium-radioactive waste stored in Asse must be retrieved by 2033, as per the Environment Minister Steffi Lemke.
- The main impediment in acquiring land for the Interim Storage Facility is the reluctance of two residents in Remlingen near Wolffenbüttel to sell their property, making expropriation legally impossible.
- The responsible Federal Company for Nuclear Waste Disposal, BGE, has managed to acquire only four hectares out of the required ten hectares for the Interim Storage Facility in Asse, adding to the delays.
- The mining of Atomic waste from the Asse facility, considered unstable for years, will be transported to the Transshipment terminal, and then distributed to an above-ground Interim Storage Facility, causing concerns among local residents about the permanent storage of waste in their community.
