Energy - Nuclear waste storage facility in Beverungen will not be built
The planned storage facility for nuclear waste in Beverungen, North Rhine-Westphalia, is not to be built. This was announced by the Federal Ministry for the Environment in Berlin on Tuesday. The planned nuclear storage facility in the border triangle of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Hesse had caused controversy for years.
The plan was to set up the so-called "Logistics Center Konrad" (ZBL Lok) in Beverungen in the district of Höxter on the site of the former Würgassen nuclear power plant. Low to intermediate-level nuclear waste from Germany was to be collected and pre-sorted there from 2027 before being transported to the Schacht Konrad repository in Salzgitter, over 100 kilometers away. Instead, the nuclear waste is now to be delivered directly to Salzgitter.
According to the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the project is unlikely to be implemented on time and therefore not economically viable due to too many legal and planning risks. There is also not enough time to find another location. The ministry suspects that the project would have led to a bad investment of around two billion euros.
The decision now provides clarity for all parties involved, said Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens). "However, the necessary end to the logistics center also means that the Konrad repository will now be in operation for longer." In principle, a logistics center would have been sensible and desirable, according to the Ministry of the Environment. So far, around 60 million euros have been invested in the project.
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Source: www.stern.de
