German anti-nuclear positions on temporary storage of nuclear waste

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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:

  1. AAA – Aachener Aktionsbündnis gegen Atomenergie
  2. Aarhus Konvention Initiative
  3. AG AtomErbe Neckarwestheim
  4. Aktionsbündnis CASTOR-Widerstand Neckarwestheim
  5. Aktionsbündnis Energiewende Heilbronn
  6. Aktionsbündnis „Stop Westcastor“ Jülich
  7. AK.W. Ende Bergstraße
  8. Anti-Atom-AG im Verband der Motorradclubs Kuhle Wampe
  9. Anti-Atom-Berlin
  10. AntiAtomBonn
  11. Antiatom-Bündnis Niederrhein
  12. Anti-Atom-Bündnis Schaumburg
  13. Anti-Atom-Gruppe Freiburg
  14. Antiatomgruppe Osnabrück
  15. Anti-Atom-Initiative-Göttingen
  16. Anti-Atom-Initiative Karlsruhe
  17. Anti-Atom-Netz Trier
  18. Anti_Atom_Plenum Köln
  19. Anti-Atom-Plenum-Weserbergland
  20. AntiAtom-Rheinberg
  21. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schacht KONRAD e.V.
  22. Arbeitskreis gegen Atomanlagen Frankfurt am Main
  23. Arbeitskreis Umwelt (AKU) Gronau
  24. Arbeitskreis Umwelt (AKU) Schüttorf
  25. attac-Gruppe „Atomianer“
  26. „Atomerbe Biblis“ „Umgang mit den atomaren Altlasten“ e.V.
  27. atomkraftENDE.darmstadt
  28. .ausgestrahlt – gemeinsam gegen atomenergie
  29. BAAK Bayernallianz für Atomausstieg und Klimaschutz
  30. Bendorfer Umweltinitiative e.V.
  31. BI AntiAtom Ludwigsburg
  32. BI Kein Endlager im Fichtelgebirge
  33. BI Kiel gegen Atomanlagen
  34. BI STOPPT TEMELIN
  35. BI WAA NAA BI gegen atomare Anlagen Weiden-Neustadt/WN
  36. BüfA Regensburg n.e.V. Bündnis für Atomausstieg und erneuerbare Energien
  37. BüfA Landshut – Bündnis für Atomausstieg
  38. Bundesverband Bürgerinitiativen Umweltschutz (BBU) e.V.
  39. Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND)
  40. BUND Kreisgruppe Steinfurt
  41. BUND Landesverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  42. BUND Naturschutz in Bayern e.V. (BUND Bayern)
  43. Bündnis für sichere Verwahrung von Atommüll Baden-Württemberg
  44. Bündnis gegen Castorexporte
  45. BUND-Regionalgruppe Münster
  46. BürgerAktionSichereAsse (BASA)
  47. Bürger gegen Atomreaktor Garching
  48. Bürgerinitiative Cattenom-Non-Merci
  49. Bürgerinitiative „Kein Atommüll in Ahaus“ e.V.
  50. Bürgerinitiativen gegen das AKW Mülheim-Kärlich
  51. Bürgerinitiative Strahlenschutz Braunschweig e.V.
  52. Bürgerinitiative Umweltschutz Lüchow-Dannenberg e.V.
  53. ByeByeBiblis – Energiewende in der Region e.V.
  54. Elternverein Restrisiko Emsland
  55. FORUM Gemeinsam gegen das Zwischenlager und für eine verantwortbare Energiepolitik e.V.
  56. Gesellschaft für Strahlenschutz e.V.
  57. Göttinger Arbeitskreis gegen Atomenergie
  58. Holon-Institut
  59. Initiative AtomErbe Obrigheim
  60. Initiative „Brokdorf-akut“
  61. Internationale Ärzte für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges / Ärzte in sozialer Verantwortung e.V. (IPPNW)
  62. Karlsruher Bündnis gegen neue Generationen von Atomreaktoren
  63. KLAR! e.V., Kein Leben mit atomaren Risiken!
  64. Klimaforum Detmold
  65. Landesarbeitskreis Atom des BUND NRW
  66. Lüneburger Aktionsbündnis gegen Atom
  67. Mütter gegen Atomkraft e.V.
  68. NaturFreunde Deutschlands
  69. Regionalkonferenz AKW Grohnde abschalten
  70. Robin Wood e.V.
  71. Schweinfurter Aktionsbündnis gegen Atomkraft (SWAB)
  72. Sofa (Sofortiger Atomausstieg) Münster
  73. Stop Tihange Deutschland e.V.
  74. Strahlentelex
  75. Umweltgruppe Wiedensahl
  76. Umweltinstitut München e.V.


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