Germany wrestles with its nuclear waste
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029541
New Scientist : Although Germany is scheduled to shut down its nuclear reactors by 2022, its nuclear problems are only beginning. An abandoned underground salt mine that was turned into a nuclear waste dump in 1967 is now collapsing, and radioactive residues are seeping through the cracks. Additional nuclear waste that has been housed in temporary storage will also have to be moved. And once the country’s 17 nuclear plants are decommissioned, there will be even more waste to deal with. Although a Final Storage Commission, composed of politicians and scientists, has been meeting to come up with a solution, no deep burial site is likely to be ready before 2050.
