A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrat (CDU) party has said “actually Gorleben is already determined as the final repository”. The Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung newspaper circulating in the county where Gorleben is located reports that Volker Kauder, head of the CDU group in the national parliament, said this at a caucus meeting of the Lower Saxony state branch of the CDU in Adendorf. Asked by journalists how the promised open-ended search for the final repository site could be done without looking at other options, Kauder replied: “Gorleben has a lot going for it. That’s why the exploration there should be completed. I don’t believe that Gorleben is unsuitable.”

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