German authorities have disclosed that water leakages into an underground experimental nuclear waste site in northern Germany will require action by 2014 to avoid collapses in the former salt mine.
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DW boss voices concern about press freedoms ... dry disposal chambers and the unauthorised storage of highly radioactive waste. German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel says the disclosures could upset plans to establish a permanent site in Germany for nuclear waste. Under former chancellor Gerhard Schöder, the Social Democrats, including Gabriel, decided to phase out all of Germany's nuclear reactors by 2021. In the current grand coalition government Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats favour keeping the reactors running longer.
(Deutsche Welle)
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