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Kiel (dpa / lno) - What to do with up to 50,000 tons of rubble after the demolition of the three nuclear power plants in Schleswig-Holstein?
So far, only the landfill in Wiershop (Herzogtum Lauenburg district) is ready for storage.
That is why Environment Minister Jan Philipp Albrecht (Greens) now wants to allocate rubble to two more plants in the north - as a last resort on the basis of the Recycling Management Act.
According to an expert opinion by the Ministry of the Environment, three other landfill sites are possible in addition to Wiershop: Lübeck-Niemark, Johannistal in Gremersdorf (Ostholstein district) and Harrislee (Schleswig-Flensburg).
The government has already excluded the landfills in Großenaspe and Damsdorf / Tensfeld (Segeberg district) and Schönwohld near Kiel for capacity reasons.
Among other things, mineral wool, building rubble and insulation must be stored.
Environment Minister Albrecht has repeatedly pointed out in the past that this is not radioactive material.
According to the ministry, the non-recyclable waste is measured up to four times.
The residual radiation should be a maximum of ten microsieverts and be well below the doses from natural radioactive radiation per year.
The natural radiation exposure in Germany is on average 2100 microsieverts per year.
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Almost a year ago, the Wiershop municipal council recommended that the operator of the landfill there accept rubble from the planned dismantling of the Krümmel nuclear power plant.
It was about 700 tons of mineral wool.
There is resistance to this, among others in Lübeck.
There the citizens decided that building rubble from the demolition should not end up in Lübeck's Niemark landfill.
The reactors in Brunsbüttel (2007) and Krümmel (2009) have been offline for years.
The demolition of the facility in Brunsbüttel has already been approved.
In the case of Krümmel, approval of the demolition plans by the Ministry of the Environment is expected this year.
A corresponding application has already been made for the Brokdorf nuclear power plant.
At the end of 2021, the age of nuclear power in Schleswig-Holstein is expected to end with the shutdown of the kiln on the Elbe.
When the facilities are demolished, tons of rubble are also produced.
Former Kiel Environment Minister and today's Green Party Chairman Robert Habeck decided years ago not to take this garbage abroad but to dispose of it in landfills in the north.
In spite of the low values for "freely measured" Akw rubble, municipalities with landfills refused to accept them.
Expert opinion on rubble from the nuclear power plant