Of course, one can point out to the people in the Groß-Gerau district that the rubble from the Biblis nuclear power plant, which is to be taken to the Büttelborn landfill, has a maximum radiation level of ten microsieverts and is therefore classified as non-hazardous.
Environment Minister Priska Hinz (The Greens) does at least.
The fact that this argumentation does not convince those affected should have become clear to the minister at the latest with the unanimous resolution of the Groß-Gerauer district council against such disposal.
Apart from the fact that the BUND, for example, judges this differently with reference to expert opinions, it is above all incomprehensible that nothing has been achieved to solve the problem for ten years.
Because since 2012 it has been known that the operator RWE would take the nuclear power plant off the grid and shut it down.
RWE had opted for demolition and against leaving the power plant "safely enclosed".
It was therefore clear that the type of debris that is now to be disposed of in Büttelborn would arise.
It was more than a decade to solve the problem politically.
And since 2014, it has also been up to the then new Minister for the Environment, Hinz, to have an acceptable solution worked out.
The information from January of this year that more than 200 landfills throughout Germany were
It is also astonishing that in the district of Bergstrasse, where the power plant is located and which has enjoyed all the financial advantages for many years, people apparently never thought of developing a plan for disposal on their own premises.
So it is understandable that the district of Groß-Gerau is now exploring all legal options.
Once again, judges may decide what politics cannot regulate through discourse.
Now common – and questionable.