High Radioactive Waste Storage Commission

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The “Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste” commission , colloquially abbreviated to the final disposal commission or rarely referred to as the nuclear waste commission , was a German federal-state commission from 2014 to 2016 that made recommendations on the storage of high-level radioactive waste .

history

The commission was set up in April 2014 by the German Bundestag and Bundesrat in accordance with Section 3 of the Site Selection Act (StandAG) of July 23, 2013. According to Section 4 StandAG, it should prepare a comprehensive report by the end of 2015 that addresses all issues relevant to the decision on the management of high-level radioactive waste. The commission should also examine the law and submit recommendations for action to the Bundestag and Bundesrat . The further tasks of the commission result from § 4 paragraph 2 StandAG. The commission should include safety requirements and host rock-specific exclusion and selection criteria, criteria for error correction (e.g. retrieval / recovery of the waste), requirements for the organization and the procedure of the selection process and the examination of alternatives as well as proposals for requirements for participation and information of the Develop the public to ensure transparency.

The commission met for the first time on May 22, 2014. The report was due to be submitted by December 31, 2015; an extension of six months was possible. The commission published its final report on June 28, 2016, and the repository commission ended its activities at the beginning of July 2016.

composition

The commission consisted of two chairmen, eight representatives from science , two representatives from environmental associations , two representatives from religious communities , two representatives from industry , two representatives from the trade unions, as well as eight members of the Bundestag and eight members of state governments. The chairmen and all members of the state governments and the Bundestag had no voting rights in the final decision on the report of the commission.

The commission set up five working groups (AG):

  • WG 1 Questions of social dialogue, public participation and transparency
  • WG 2 Evaluation of the Site Selection Act
  • WG 3 Social and technical-scientific decision-making criteria as well as criteria for error correction
  • 1. Ad-hoc group principles and mission statement
  • 2. Ad hoc group dealing with complaints from energy supply companies (EVU)

Ursula Heinen-Esser and Michael Müller took the chair alternately . The science represented:

The environmental associations were represented by:

Results

In April 2015, the commission presented the first results of its work. According to this, the final disposal of highly radioactive waste in Germany will drag on well into the 22nd century . The commission expected the end of the emplacement between the years 2075 and 2130, while the "condition of a closed repository mine between 2095 and 2170 or later" should be achieved. Accordingly, highly radioactive waste could be stored in interim storage facilities until after 2100. At the same time, a significant increase in final storage costs to 50 to 70 billion euros was forecast; significantly more than the 36 billion euros in provisions set up by the nuclear power plant operators for this purpose.

In its final report from June 2016, the commission published criteria for the search for a repository that do not exclude any location or previously discussed type of rock (salt, clay, granite) from the outset. This means that, in principle, repositories are possible at all possible locations. Eleven criteria were defined, which primarily determine the geological conditions, such as stability and impermeability to water, as well as the procedure for public participation. According to this, the sites proposed by a federal company that is yet to be founded for the construction of the repository are to be checked by the Federal Office for Nuclear Waste Disposal Safety (BfE) and discussed publicly at "regional conferences". The Bundestag and Bundesrat should then decide on the regions that were selected as a result of these conferences, and lawsuits against the site selection should be possible before the start of the underground exploration.

Klaus Brunsmeier from BUND was the only one of the 15 present members of the commission who were entitled to vote against the final report and presented a special vote. Further special votes were submitted by the federal states of Saxony, Bavaria, the Die Linke parliamentary group , the scientist Wolfram Kudla and the two industrial representatives Bernhard Fischer and Gerd Jäger. The Saxon state government criticized the fact that a potential repository in granite rock would have lower requirements for the thickness of the layer than the other types of rock. The report was presented to the public on July 5, 2016 in Berlin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste Materials ( BT-Drs. 18/9100 )
  2. ↑ a b Description of the commission on endlagerung.de
  3. ↑ Commission website
  4. ↑ Dagmar Dehmer: Compromise on 500 pages , Tagesspiegel from June 28, 2016, accessed on June 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Nuclear waste no longer in this century . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 20, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  6. ↑ M. Bauchmüller: More security, more participation , Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 29, 2016, p. 6.
  7. ^ Ministry dispute over jurisdiction , Der Bundestag, January 22, 2016
  8. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary draft, July 4, 2016, p. 496ff.
  9. ↑ Criteria for search for a repository are available , taz , June 28, 2016
  10. ↑ BUND's special opinion on the report of the repository search commission published , finanzen.net, July 4, 2016
  11. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary draft, July 4, 2016, p. 514f.
  12. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary draft, July 4, 2016, p. 513f.
  13. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary version, July 4, 2016, p. 515ff.
  14. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary version, July 4, 2016, p. 510ff.
  15. ↑ Responsibility for the future, a fair and transparent procedure for the selection of a national repository site , final report of the Commission for the Storage of Highly Radioactive Waste, preliminary version, July 4, 2016, p. 509f.
  16. ↑ Gorleben on a "white" location map , by Nadine Lindner, Deutschlandfunk, July 5, 2016
  17. ↑ Repository Commission presented final report , Commission for the storage of highly radioactive waste, July 5, 2016
  18. ↑ Saxony against the final report of the repository commission. DNN , July 1, 2016, accessed July 5, 2016
  19. ↑ Jörg Sommer : Let's argue about nuclear waste! Zeit Online, July 7, 2016, accessed on the same day.