Germany Seeks Faster Atomic Waste Recovery From Crumbling Site
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Germany plans to speed up recovery of atomic waste costing at least 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) from a crumbling underground storage site to stop radioactivity leaking into groundwater before the facility is closed.
Factions of the four main political parties issued a draft bill today in Berlin to remove regulatory hurdles to recovery from the Lower Saxony site, said Maria Flachsbarth, a lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. It will be debated tomorrow and may be passed in March, she said.