Germany’s hidden leaking nuclear waste dump

Published: 19 April 2024
on channel: DW Planet A

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Germany has a dirty little secret. In the middle of the country, deep underground, a radioactive waste dump has been leaking for decades. And nobody really knows what do to with it.

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Credits:
Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer
Video Editor: David Jacobi Camera, Henning Goll
Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Joanna Gottschalk
Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

Read more:
Information on Asse II by the operator BGE: https://www.bge.de/en/asse/

The water in the Asse II (German): https://www.bge.de/de/asse/themenschw...

Lower Saxony parliamentary investigative committee report from 2012 on political misconduct regarding Asse II (German): https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/18/C...

Examples of waste documentation compiled by Greenpeace (German): https://www.greenpeace.de/sites/defau...

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 The former salt mine at Asse
2:38 Going underground
5:28 The problem with the water
7:16 Instability of the mine
8:04 How could this happen?
10:40 The big removal
13:40 Local protest
15:04 Conclusion

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