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A reader comments on the article “Tense relationship with France”
So now the Germans are out of the binational business park. And apparently the conflict over the planned recycling plant for “nuclear waste”, to be more precise parts of weakly radioactive plants from nuclear power plants, also played a role. I cannot understand why this project is so vehemently rejected by German politicians at district and state level. Two years ago, France shut down the old Fessenheim reactor, and we were all happy about it, myself included, and rightly so. Because this means that a real risk has also been eliminated on this side of the Rhine. The justified protests of environmental groups and politicians also contributed to this, which our neighbors listened to – albeit very late. The plant now under discussion is nowhere near comparable to a power reactor in terms of risk potential. It is true that radioactively contaminated plant components are pollutants, but don’t we trust that the French will deal with them adequately? Just like you deal with many other pollutants in industry? And isn’t this an internal affair of the French? What right do we have to get them to do it? How much is important? And is it worth burdening the Franco-German partnership on the Upper Rhine with something like that?Matthias Zhringer, Freiburg
