Gross-Gerau. On Monday, the district council of Groß-Gerau unanimously and across party lines spoke out against the acceptance of waste from the former Biblis nuclear power plant at a landfill in Büttelborn. All legal options are now to be explored to avoid this, is the result of an extraordinary session of the district council. The motion to reject was presented by the SPD, Verdi and Sinistra. MPs from several parties criticized the state government and the Bergstrasse district, where the power plant is located. You have had eleven years to find a solution in the responsible district.
The search for a suitable landfill was met with refusals. Hessian Environment Minister Priska Hinz (Greens) said in January in a response to a small inquiry that none of the more than 200 landfills requested nationwide had agreed to dispose of waste from power plants.
This is about 3200 tons of rubble that must be stored in the Büttelborn landfill. Radiation exposure is below the ten microsievert limit, so the rubble can be disposed of in a designated landfill. According to information, a total of one million tons of dismantling material is produced at the Biblis site.
After the phasing out of nuclear power in Germany following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the Biblis plant was also closed shortly thereafter. The nuclear power plant in South Hesse has been demolished since 2017. (dpa)
