The Gorleben interim storage facility for nuclear waste (Lower Saxony) will be closed for good. The Federal Environment Ministry announced on Friday in Berlin.
The ministry decided to “commission the decommissioning of the mine” to the Federal Agency for Final Storage.
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Opponents of nuclear power at a protest in 2005. The Castor transports were always accompanied by a large police forcePhoto: dpa
Such castors rolled in the direction of Lower Saxony for decadesPhoto: imago stock & people
The interim storage facility in Gorleben. The Gorleben salt dome was intended for final disposalPhoto: picture alliance / dpa
Last year, the Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE) announced that large parts of Germany are generally suitable for a nuclear repository according to geological criteria – but the long and fiercely contested Gorleben salt dome is not among them. The reason given was geological defects.
In the 1970s, politicians made the decision to set up a repository in the Gorleben salt dome. This resulted in protests that lasted for decades. After a long period of trouble, the search for a repository was completely restarted. However, politicians had also criticized the fact that the Gorleben salt dome was removed from the proceedings.
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