Search for final nuclear repository reset to zero

Germany’s governing coalition of Social Democrats (SPD) and Conservatives (CDU / CSU), together with the Green Party, will introduce a bill in parliament next week that starts the search for a final repository for the country’s nuclear waste from scratch, Thorsten Knuf writes in Frankfurter Rundschau. Agreeing on a “white map” that allows every part of the country to be included in the search has been hard since the federal states of Bavaria and Saxony tried to exclude themselves as potential repository locations, Knuf explains. With the states’ resistance now being overcome, the search will be brought to a restart and could be finished by 2031, he writes.

For background, see the CLEW factsheet What to do with the nuclear waste – the storage question.