Groß-Gerau (dpa/lhe) - On Monday, the district council of Groß-Gerau unanimously and across party lines spoke out against accepting waste from the former nuclear power plant in Biblis at a landfill site in Büttelborn. All legal options are now to be explored to prevent this, is the result of a special session of the district council. The motion for rejection had been submitted by the SPD, Greens and Left. MPs from several parties criticized the state government and the Bergstraße district, in which the nuclear power station is located. You had eleven years to find a solution in the responsible circle.
The search for a suitable landfill was met with refusals. Hesse's Environment Minister Priska Hinz (Greens) said in January in an answer to a small inquiry that none of the more than 200 landfills asked for nationwide had agreed to dispose of power plant waste.
It is about 3200 tons of rubble that are to be stored at the landfill in Büttelborn. The radiation exposure is below the limit of ten microsieverts, so the rubble can be disposed of at a suitable landfill. According to the information, a total of one million tons of dismantling material are produced at the Biblis site.
After Germany's nuclear phase-out in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011, the Biblis power plant was also shut down shortly thereafter. The nuclear power plant in southern Hesse has been demolished since 2017.
