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Status: 03.11.2020 10:35 pm
The Castor transport to the interim storage facility for nuclear waste in Biblis is underway: the train left Nordenham on Tuesday night around 7:50 pm On Wednesday morning they await you in southern Hesse.
Upon leaving, everything went according to schedule, a spokesman for the federal police told the NDR in Lower Saxony. For tactical reasons, he did not provide information on which route the train was taking. All he said was: “The train has left the Wesermarsch, passed through Hude and is heading to Biblis.” According to information from the “Stop Castor” alliance, the train transporting German nuclear waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in England is on its way through Bremen, Hannover and Göttingen. The federal police don’t expect big protests. But she was prepared for any scenario, the spokesperson said. The over 500 km long route to Biblis is largely fully supervised. Several thousand federal and state police forces are in action.
Federal police warn against entering the roads
In Germany, this is the first major repatriation of nuclear waste in nine years. In the past, Castor transports were often accompanied by large protests with roadblocks. In this sense, the Federal Police once again issued an urgent warning against entering the railways and systems. Because the stopping distances of trains can be up to 1,000 meters. In addition, there is a risk of deadly electric shock in the area of overhead lines, even without touching them. A distance of 1.5 meters is sufficient for this.
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Activists believe that transportation is pointless and very dangerous
Opponents of nuclear power have announced a vigil for early Wednesday in Biblis. “Highly radioactive nuclear waste is not only shipped as an invisible ghost ship through the German Inlet, but is now also shipped on its dangerous journey without prior notification to affected rail travelers and residents of the transport route,” said Herbert Würth of the Castor Alliance. “This fossil nuclear policy à la ‘out of sight and out of mind’ must finally end.” The Federal Association of Citizen Initiatives for the Protection of the Environment (BBU) criticized the fact that there is no final deposit of nuclear waste in sight in Germany for the foreseeable future. However, nuclear waste continues to be produced in nuclear power plants and uranium factories. “Demonstrations against the shipment of nuclear waste are and will remain imperative,” said BBU board member Udo Buchholz.
Criticism of transportation during the corona pandemic
The return of nuclear waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant due to the corona pandemic is particularly controversial. In addition to opponents of nuclear power, politicians and the police had also criticized the fact that such transportation was an additional burden at this time. The state of Lower Saxony had previously tried unsuccessfully to work to get the federal government to postpone transport. He had refused to change the date again with reference to international agreements on the return of nuclear waste. According to the operations department, a comprehensive hygiene concept applies to the police, also when it comes to demonstration participants.
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