Kazaguruma-Demo for the 13th Anniversary of FUKUSHIMA: NO to the globally growing radioactive waste mountains - Safe disposal is not possible!

Despite massive protests, Japan has in 2023 started to discharge radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. Removed radioactive soil is to be "recycled".

But Japan is not the only country that wants to make the nuclear waste that piles up every day disappear. From reprocessing plants in La Hague and Sellafield, around ten million liters of radioactive wastewater are pumped into the sea every day.

Radioactive gases are released into the atmosphere. In Germany, more than 95 percent of the demolition material from decommissioned nuclear power plants, although still radioactive, are "measured as free of contamination" and deposited in normal household waste landfills and released into the unprotected environment for further use.

According to the Federal Company for Final Disposal, around 10,500 tons of highly radioactive waste from fuel elements are expected by 2080 of highly radioactive waste from fuel elements. The Asse II mine still contains more than 125,000 barrels of radioactive waste in a disastrous state. In Gorleben, which is no longer considered site for a final repository, there are over 100 Castor casks in an above-ground hall that was not built for this long-term storage purpose.

Germany has shut down its last reactors in April 2023. Nevertheless, the debate about a return to nuclear power continues to flare up in this country - even though it is obvious that nuclear power does not help in the energy crisis. At the same time, eleven EU states want to strengthen cooperation in the field of nuclear energy: France, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia - without a repository for high-level radioactive waste. And what does it mean to store nuclear waste safely for a million years? Citizens can hardly participate in the decision-making processes, there is a lack of transparency.

Nuclear plants and nuclear waste storage facilities are dangerous: an interruption to the power supply, a plane crash or cyberattack could be enough to cause a nuclear disaster. The Europe's largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, was recently repeatedly under attack. All over the world there are countless nuclear reactors, nuclear research facilities and nuclear waste storage sites.

The terms "low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste" and "low-level radiation" are misleading, as they pose a serious risk to the environment and living organisms. Humans have already carelessly produced far too much nuclear waste, which cannot be disposed of by simply removing it from the public eye.

Nuclear technology will save neither the climate nor the world, but the opposite is the case, as it leaves a dangerous poisonous legacy for many generations to come for many generations to come. The only safe and climate-friendly solution is to develop green energy throughout the world as quickly and consistently as possible.

- a global phase-out of irresponsible nuclear energy

- immediate decommissioning of the nuclear plants in Lingen and Gronau

- no classification of nuclear energy as sustainable energy production/deletion of nuclear from the EU taxonomy

- Cancel EURATOM treaty // Germany and Japan should finally join the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

- An end to the debate on return to nuclear power in Germany

- No discharge of radioactive water into the sea, whether in Fukushima or elsewhere!