Haberstal is the name of the area of the planned site geologists call it Nördlich Lägern. We also spoke with Mirjam Strässle in Haberstal. However, not everyone was indifferent to the decision. Organic farming and nuclear waste storage facilities aren’t compatible A family man from Windlach said he thought it made sense that nuclear waste should now be stored here as well. Roads and railways cut through the land, and gravel is dug out of the ground. Literally every minute, jets approaching for landing fly over the rooftops of the villages. But the lowlands also have another side to them. The Zurich lowlands are made up of attractive looking villages. This same opinion was held by everyone we asked. Nuclear waste cannot simply be shipped abroad, he added. «Someone has to take it,» said Andreas Schenkel, a farmer from Weiach. And it will be decades before that happens anyway. The material will be stored deep in the earth.
There are still questions about the ground water that need to be answered, says the Green party councilor.Īt the Weiach festival grounds, the opinion was unanimous: The experts will know what they are doing. Ĭantonal Councilor Wilma Willi indicating the flow of ground water on a map. The main attraction at the event, in which lumberjacks competed against each other, had been planned by a tool manufacturer. On Sunday, the day after the decision about the site was made public, the town was celebrating its 750th anniversary – with a beer table, shish kebab, pork sausage and several hundred visitors. The village of Weiach is situated barely three kilometers from the planned nuclear storage facility. But apart from them, little protest has emerged. For the landowners who will be affected by this decision, this comes as quite a shock. On Saturday, this group made the decision about where to store radioactive waste from all over Switzerland: the Zurich lowlands. The organization tasked with overseeing these efforts is the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, more widely known as Nagra. Radioactive material is to be stored there for periods of time that are beyond human comprehension. At a depth of 900 meters, a system of caverns is planned, hundreds of kilometers long – not dissimilar to a structure made by insects. Not far from a tranquil hamlet, farmland is to be torn up and a mine shaft driven into the interior. After an announcement like this, angry protests might be expected.
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