German anti-nuclear positions on temporary storage of nuclear waste
In November 2018 German anti-nuclear groups launched a detailed paper on positions and demands in connection with the temporary storage of nuclear waste in Germany. 76 NGOs, initiatives and groups signed and support these positions which shall be basis for anti-nuclear approaches in the struggles about repositories, atomic transports and new nuclear waste management facilities. Over two years a working group of the half-yearly Nuclear Waste Conference of the German anti-nuclear movement discussed and developed these positions.
Preliminary remark
The positions paper "temporary storage of nuclear waste" has been developed as part of the Nuclear Waste Conference, a regularly held nationwide meeting of initiatives, environmental organizations and critical scientists. The paper is not a pleading for a permanent surficial storage of high level radioactive waste. However, until the end of the surficial storage the wastes have to be kept as safe as possible. In Germany every day nuclear waste is produced in the still operating nuclear power plants (NPP), research reactors, in the uranium enrichment facility Gronau and in the fuel elements factory Lingen. It is absolutely essential to immediately stop this production of nuclear waste by abandoning these atomic facilities.
Since the ruling to lawfully end the usage of atomic energy for electricity generation by 31 December 2022 and the enacting of the of the site selection bill the responsible side speaks about a "new start" in the nuclear waste policy and about the responsibility for the atomic waste the society has to accept. At the same time the operators of NPPs, who had taken in high profits over decades, were in 2016/2017 released from their financial responsibility for a safe storage of radioactive waste. Besides, the state is supposed to take over responsibility for the temporary storage.
The Nuclear Waste Conference strongly criticized the release of the enterprises from liability. The companies and the state, that itself produced highly problematic waste in the research centers, are obligated to make sure that a safe storage of the nuclear waste takes place. It is not the society's or the anti-nuclear movement's task to accept threats and to present turnkey solutions. As in the past decades, we understand it to be our task to ruthlessly point out current and future risks and to demand solutions from the responsible entities.
Point of departure
Currently more than 1,000 Castor containers with high level radioactive waste are stored in the central interim storage facilities in Ahaus, Gorleben and Lubmin as well as in the decentralized storage facilities in Jülich and at 12 NPP sites.
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Initiatives, NGOs, groups etc. (not individuals) can still join the positions paper by signing (email to info AT atommuellkonferenz DOT de[1] - please also provide your homepage link if applicable).
The following NGOs, initiatives and groups signed and support these positions and demands:
- AAA – Aachener Aktionsbündnis gegen Atomenergie
- Aarhus Konvention Initiative
- AG AtomErbe Neckarwestheim
- Aktionsbündnis CASTOR-Widerstand Neckarwestheim
- Aktionsbündnis Energiewende Heilbronn
- Aktionsbündnis „Stop Westcastor“ Jülich
- AK.W. Ende Bergstraße
- Anti-Atom-AG im Verband der Motorradclubs Kuhle Wampe
- Anti-Atom-Berlin
- AntiAtomBonn
- Antiatom-Bündnis Niederrhein
- Anti-Atom-Bündnis Schaumburg
- Anti-Atom-Gruppe Freiburg
- Antiatomgruppe Osnabrück
- Anti-Atom-Initiative-Göttingen
- Anti-Atom-Initiative Karlsruhe
- Anti-Atom-Netz Trier
- Anti_Atom_Plenum Köln
- Anti-Atom-Plenum-Weserbergland
- AntiAtom-Rheinberg
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schacht KONRAD e.V.
- Arbeitskreis gegen Atomanlagen Frankfurt am Main
- Arbeitskreis Umwelt (AKU) Gronau
- Arbeitskreis Umwelt (AKU) Schüttorf
- attac-Gruppe „Atomianer“
- „Atomerbe Biblis“ „Umgang mit den atomaren Altlasten“ e.V.
- atomkraftENDE.darmstadt
- .ausgestrahlt – gemeinsam gegen atomenergie
- BAAK Bayernallianz für Atomausstieg und Klimaschutz
- Bendorfer Umweltinitiative e.V.
- BI AntiAtom Ludwigsburg
- BI Kein Endlager im Fichtelgebirge
- BI Kiel gegen Atomanlagen
- BI STOPPT TEMELIN
- BI WAA NAA BI gegen atomare Anlagen Weiden-Neustadt/WN
- BüfA Regensburg n.e.V. Bündnis für Atomausstieg und erneuerbare Energien
- BüfA Landshut – Bündnis für Atomausstieg
- Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz (BBU) e.V.
- Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND)
- BUND Kreisgruppe Steinfurt
- BUND Landesverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e.V. (BUND Bayern)
- Bündnis für sichere Verwahrung von Atommüll Baden-Württemberg
- Bündnis gegen Castorexporte
- BUND-Regionalgruppe Münster
- BürgerAktionSichereAsse (BASA)
- Bürger gegen Atomreaktor Garching
- Bürgerinitiative Cattenom-Non-Merci
- Bürgerinitiative „Kein Atommüll in Ahaus“ e.V.
- Bürgerinitiativen gegen das AKW Mülheim-Kärlich
- Bürgerinitiative Strahlenschutz Braunschweig e.V.
- Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow-Dannenberg e.V.
- ByeByeBiblis – Energiewende in der Region e.V.
- Elternverein Restrisiko Emsland
- FORUM Gemeinsam gegen das Zwischenlager und für eine verantwortbare Energiepolitik e.V.
- Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz e.V.
- Göttinger Arbeitskreis gegen Atomenergie
- Holon-Institut
- Initiative AtomErbe Obrigheim
- Initiative „Brokdorf-akut“
- Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges / Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW)
- Karlsruher Bündnis gegen neue Generationen von Atomreaktoren
- KLAR! e.V., Kein Leben mit atomaren Risiken!
- Klimaforum Detmold
- Landesarbeitskreis Atom des BUND NRW
- Lüneburger Aktionsbündnis gegen Atom
- Mütter gegen Atomkraft e.V.
- NaturFreunde Deutschlands
- Regionalkonferenz AKW Grohnde abschalten
- Robin Wood e.V.
- Schweinfurter Aktionsbündnis gegen Atomkraft (SWAB)
- Sofa (Sofortiger Atomausstieg) Münster
- Stop Tihange Deutschland e.V.
- Strahlentelex
- Umweltgruppe Wiedensahl
- Umweltinstitut München e.V.
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