Nuclear waste search: Baden-Württemberg loses potential final storage areas!
Nuclear waste search: Baden-Württemberg loses potential final storage areas!
The search for a safe repository for Germany's highly radioactive nuclear waste goes into a new round! Around 27,000 cubic meters of these dangerous waste must finally find a permanent place. The Federal Society for Final storage (BGE) has now made significant progress and has excluded several regions in Baden-Württemberg as unsuitable. A reason to joy for many residents!
Among other things, areas in a strip between Bad Herrenalb, Pforzheim and Vaihingen an der Enz to the districts of Neckar-Odenwald and Main-Tauber are affected. Parts of the district of Constance and the region between Tuttlingen and Emmendingen are no longer in the race. There is also another regional band from Münsingen and Blaubeuren to the districts of Heidenheim and Ostalb. But don't panic: Around 44 percent of the area of Germany remains as a potential location in the game, since experts have not yet made a final evaluation.The way to secure storage
The BGE has updated its interactive maps and now shows that the areas originally considered decreased by around ten percent compared to the first report from 2020. At that time, 90 potential locations were identified, which are now to be evaporated to a few. The safety of storage is of great priority, because the nuclear waste shines for hundreds of thousands of years and has to be accommodated in a place that remains stable for one million years.
The nuclear waste is currently stored in 16 above -ground intermediate camps in various federal states, but the Federal Ministry of the Environment expects to find a suitable repository location by 2050. The clock is ticking and the search for the perfect place for these dangerous waste is still being promoted with high pressure!
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| Ort | Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland |
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