German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/183,
pp. 23105-23106.
Before us lies a draft law of the Federal government on the
adaptation of cost provisions in the area of nuclear disposal. Many of the alterations
are sensible – yes, you are right there, Herr Möring – yet plainly not all. We now speak on those
which are not.
Those for the presently designated zones no longer allowed
use of §21
paragraph 2 of the site selection law interfere with the business freedom of those
which are there already actively excavating. These so far might extend
excavations in a possibly select zone if similar projects were already extant
underground. This is now prohibited to them. We are dealing with an underground
expropriation.
We would thus be at the topic of underground exploitation.
In many Federal states, projects to depths of less than 100 meters are not
subject to authorization. These projects shall now in any case be subjected to
the safety provisions of §21 of the site selection law. The responsible state
authorities will thus be obliged to notify the federal office for nuclear disposal
security of these projects. That is not only an interference in federalism,
that is also an obviously bureaucratic added expense.
It is then even more astonishing when it is communicated to
us in the draft law that a financial relief is to be expected. 175,00 euros
shall be saved by the alteration of §21 of the site selection law, even though
an administrative action will be created – dear government, that does not even
begin to be plausible.
We are thereby at the interim report of the federal society
for final storage. Final storage is now possible in almost half of Germany. The
quarreling began immediately. It is generally indicated by the false manner of
approaching the ways and means of dealing with the nuclear reusable material [Wertstoffen].
In fact, Herr Möring,
the finality, namely in §1 of the site selection law, will be first be demanded
in 500 years. Until then, the possibility of an excavation is legally
proscribed. The topic shall be kept cooking for 500 years. You wish to
artificially increase the price of nuclear technology with the eternal search
for the perfect site which will then never be found. You thereby create an artificial
social stigmatization.
What we need – there, you are right – is a secure interim
storage until solid nuclear technological methods have been tested in practice
so as to solve the final storage problem once and for all. And, yes, this
technology presently does not exist in Germany. It is, among others, your fault
that in the past 35 years every research project was shut down and Germany has
forfeited its technological leadership.
The Russia example, of which you have spoken: Yes, Russia
already uses this technology for dis-armed plutonium warheads and thereby
generates electricity. And plutonium is also present in the German remainder
material, disapprovingly designated as “waste”. This could be converted to
electricity instead of being buried in the earth. Instead of producing costs
and quarrels, added value could be pursued. This would then be – I say it
because it is extremely important to some of you – nearly CO2-free.
And even if you are in want of the vision of an enclosed combustion fuel cycle, this is guaranteed to be developed somewhere in the world in the coming 500 years. If you do not believe that, then look at the technological developments and technological quantum leaps of the past 500 years.
Ralph Lenkert (Linke): That means, you are speculating that it will be
500 years until there is a solution!
Look, for once, Herr Lenkert: The Bundestag’s plenary area
is about 20, 25 years old, and we everywhere have telephone booths. After 25
years, are they still used by anyone? No.
You are splitting the society with your expensive effort to
find a hole into which you wish to throw reusable nuclear material. Your
childish, green spite to hide this value from the continually developing
technology is a false path.
Use the immense time period of 500 years, which you besides
have given yourselves, so as to develop the technological possibilities which
may make completely superfluous a final storage in the orders of magnitude of
space and time which you have always established for the people. Remove your
ideological blinkers and set for yourselves the social responsibility to develop
this country technologically forward and not backwards.
Besides, I am in favor of an immediate end to the esoteric
mask obligation in Germany on account of a lack of efficacy.
Oliver Krischer (Greens): Inconceivable!
