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The federal government and Germany’s 16 states have reached agreement on a project to seek a site for a final deep-level nuclear waste storage dump.
A bill will shortly be introduced to propose an alternative to the hotly contested plan to use a salt dome at the Gorleben site in Lower Saxony, which is already Germany’s main nuclear waste storage facility, amid criticism of the geoscientific arguments used to select Gorleben.
Exploration to find a site will be conducted “with full transparency and possible participation by citizens” at locations across Germany so as “to finally reach a consensus” said Winfried Kretschmann, the Green party Minister-President of the state of Baden-Württemberg.
