Greens welcome ban on nuclear waste storage in Hanau

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"We are pleased with the ruling of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig", says Viola Haßdenteufel, spokeswoman for the district executive of the Greens Main-Kinzig and deputy chairwoman of the parliamentary group of the district parliamentary group. “Last Tuesday it was decided that radioactive waste should not be stored in commercial areas.”

The basis for this judgment was a planned expansion of the interim warehouse in a Hanau industrial park: ‘The Bundesverwaltungsgericht (Federal Administrative Court) has made it clear that radioactive waste is not permitted in a commercial area. This judgment is of immense importance far beyond the city of Hanau.’

Haßdenteufel emphasizes that an extension of the interim camp by the Kreisverband and the Kreistag faction was always rejected: ‘In 2018, the Administrative Court ruled in favour of the company ‘Daher’ and considered an extension to be admissible. With an urgent motion in the district council, we then drew attention to this judgment and demanded that the district support the city of Hanau in filing the appeal and further rejection.”

With the current decision, it has now been finally clarified ‘that any planning of a nuclear waste interim storage facility in industrial areas can be rejected. It is precisely with regard to the further unresolved question of the final disposal of nuclear waste and the search for further interim storage facilities that clarity has been created here", says Haßdenteufel.

‘Since its founding in the Main-Kinzig district, the Greens have campaigned for a sustainable energy supply and against the use of nuclear power and supported the anti-nuclear movement.’ At the latest since the misconduct of the companies in the former ‘Atomdorf’ and the ‘Super-Gau’ in Chernobyl, it is clear that nuclear plants pose a risk and are by no means sustainable. "In this context, we strongly reject the idea that nuclear power should be classified as sustainable in the European Union."

The district association and parliamentary group of the Greens Main-Kinzig now hope that the expansion of plants that generate renewable energy will pick up speed again: "This will enable us to ensure a truly sustainable energy supply", concludes Haßdenteufel.

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Jakob Mähler
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