{"id":7177,"date":"2026-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:47:28","slug":"how-can-germany-deal-responsibly-with-highly-radioactive-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/how-can-germany-deal-responsibly-with-highly-radioactive-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Germany deal responsibly with highly radioactive waste?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The search for a final repository for high-level radioactive waste will take many more years. This effectively makes interim storage a long-term task. At the same time, technology is continuing to advance in this field. For example, treating high-level radioactive waste could, in some cases, drastically reduce its half-lives. Current GES activities in this field are not aimed at countering the search for a final repository, nor at a disguised return to nuclear energy, but rather propose evaluating alternatives for the management of high-level radioactive waste according to uniform criteria. At an event organised by GES and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.4pi-solutions.com\/\"> 4Pi-Solutions<\/a> in Berlin on 20 May, we brought together different perspectives: scientific, technological, business and political. The most important outcome is a roadmap for the responsible handling of the possible alternatives for managing high-level radioactive waste.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click here for the GES proposal:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260526_Wege_aus-dem-Endlager-Dilemma_kurz_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the short version<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/260526_Wege_aus-dem-Endlager-Dilemma_lang_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the long version<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The search for a final repository for high-level radioactive waste will take many more years. This effectively makes interim storage a long-term task. At the same time, technology is continuing to advance in this field. For example, treating high-level radioactive waste could, in some cases, drastically reduce its half-lives. Current GES activities in this field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,44,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ges-news","category-position-papers","category-publications","category-unkategorisiert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7195,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7177\/revisions\/7195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global-energy-solutions.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}