Germany will begin searching next year for a site for its nuclear waste storage facility, but it may take more than 100 years to get a secure facility up and running, to bury all of the country’s growing pile of nuclear waste. After two years of research, a parliamentary commission put together to propose a solution for the problem of radioactive storage following the country’s decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2022, said Tuesday the time frame is still considered “ambitious.” “The German Bundestag is due, according to current estimates, to start searching for an optimal secure place in 2017,” the nearly 700-page report stated. “Decades will pass before the waste can be buried and possibly more than a century before this process ends.”
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