Who does not know the discussion about the final storage of spent fuel elements from nuclear power plants in Germany. At the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, there was a very intensive search for final storage sites and test drillings for them were carried out or planned. The salt domes near Gorleben were one of the selected final storage sites.
At that time a massive resistance formed in the region, supported by the entire Federal Republic of that time. Today, many cultural traces and ways of life, as well as organic farming and forms of alternative energy generation, testify to the "convicts" of the time.
Today the interim storage facility for the fuel elements is set up there. Behind an earth wall you can see the halls in which the castor casks with the spent fuel elements are temporarily stored.
Every time Castor containers are delivered again, the protest is formed anew.

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🌈 Micha P ☠

June 27, 2021

When no transports are arriving or departing, there is refreshingly little going on here.

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Nils

August 9, 2020

A temporary storage facility for eternity.

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