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Frankfurt / Aachen (dpa) - Despite the ongoing lawsuit by an opponent of nuclear power, fuel elements from Germany may be brought to the Doel nuclear power plant in Belgium.
This emerges from a decision by the Hessian Administrative Court on Tuesday.
The judges in Kassel declared that the action brought by a natural person against the export approved by the Federal Office for Economics and Export Control (Bafa) has no suspensive effect.
This means that the exporting company does not have to wait for the lawsuit to proceed.
The decision is final.
(File number: 6 B 2637/20)
The Court referred to the Atomic Energy Act.
Accordingly, an export license must be issued if there are no concerns about the reliability of the exporter and the fuels are not used in such a way that international obligations or Germany's security are endangered.
The dispute is about 52 fuel assemblies from Lingen in Lower Saxony, which are supposed to enable old reactors to continue operating in Belgium.
A nuclear power opponent from Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia had filed a lawsuit against the export before the Administrative Court (VG) Frankfurt.
The Bafa is based there.
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The plaintiff and an anti-nuclear alliance see an increasing risk of nuclear accidents from the old reactors.
They expect it to be years before a verdict and hoped to stop exports by then.
There is not yet a hearing date for the main proceedings before the Frankfurt Administrative Court.