Parliament green-lights law on nuclear repository search
Germany鈥檚 parliament has approved legslation to authorise a search for a permanent nuclear waste storage site, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports. The search will be conducted across the country and is meant to find a solution by 2031, the newspaper writes. The repository theoretically must provide a safe storage site for radioactive waste for a million years, it says.
鈥淢ore than 30,000 generations will be affected by a nuclear technology that we鈥檝e only used for 60 years,鈥� environment minister Barbara Hendricks said in a speech preceding the decision in parliament, the environment ministry (BMUB) said in transcript of Hendricks's speech. These figures "make abundantly clear how much of a wrong path the use of nuclear energy was," Hendricks added.
Find the transcripts of Hendricks's speech in German .
For background, see the 威力彩玩法 factsheet What to do with the nuclear waste 鈥� the storage question.