Wackersdorf reprocessing plant

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WAA-Wackersdorf building in 2014
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WAA Wackersdorf (green building) and Murner See

The Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant (German : Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Wackersdorf, abbreviated WAA Wackersdorf) was a planned reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf in Bavaria, Germany. Because of protests, the plant was never completed. Today it is an industrial site with no special features.

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Anti-WAA protest

In the early 1980s, plans to build a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf led to major protests. In 1986, peaceful protests as well as heavy confrontations between West German police armed with stun grenades, rubber bullets, water cannons, CS gas and CN-gas and demonstrators of which some were armed with slingshots, crowbars and Molotov cocktails took place at multiple occasions at the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. [1] [2] The plans for the plant were abandoned in 1988. It is still unclear whether protests, plant economics, or the death of the Minister-President of the state of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauß, in 1988 led to the decision. [3]

The Anti-WAAhnsinns Festivals were political rock concerts which took place in Germany in the 1980s. (The name is a pun on WAA and Wahnsinn = madness.) Their purpose was to support protests against a planned nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. In 1986, the fifth festival marked the peak of the protest movement against the plant.

Protest monuments

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Franziskus-Marterl
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Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival memorial stone in Burglengenfeld
Ex-voto in Kreuzberg Church, Schwandorf with a prayer against the WAA Anti WAA Votivtafel in Schwandorf Kreuzberg.jpg
Ex-voto in Kreuzberg Church, Schwandorf with a prayer against the WAA

To this day, there are still some monuments to the WAA resistance against the plant:

Der Zaun des Anstosses at Mozartplatz in Salzburg (Austria)(
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Der Zaun des Anstoßes at Mozartplatz in Salzburg (Austria)( 47°47′57″N13°02′54″E / 47.799146°N 13.048465°E / 47.799146; 13.048465 (Anti-WAA-Memorial at Mozartplatz, Salzburg (Austria)) )

Documentary films

Some German documentaries about WAA were filmed.

Many other films and documentaries are available at "WAA Wackersdorf" on video portals such as Vimeo or YouTube.

See also

References

  1. Energy and Now, the Political Fallout, Time, June 2, 1986
  2. Germans Arrest 300 In Antinuclear Protests
  3. Nuclear Power in Germany: A Chronology
  4. see also de:Franziskus-Marterl (german)
  5. WAAhnsinn – Der Wackersdorf-Film - (Vimeo ca. 90 Min.)
  6. Spaltprozesse - (YouTube, Trailer zum Film, ca. 6 Min.)
  7. Restrisiko - (YouTube, Trailer, ca. 7 Min.)
  8. Das achte Gebot - (YouTube, Trailer, ca. 6 Min.)
  9. Halbwertszeiten - (YouTube, Trailer, ca. 6 Min.)
  10. Albtraum Atommüll - (YouTube-Playlist 1-10 je 10 Min.)
  11. WAA Wackersdorf: Strahlende Zukunft für die Oberpfalz - (Monitor-documentary on YouTube)
  12. 18 Tage Freies Wackerland 2-3 - (YouTube ca. 13 Min.), 18 Tage Freies Wackerland - (Vimeo ca. 32 Min.),
  13. 18 Tage Freies Wackerland 3-3 - (YouTube ca. 11 Min.)
  14. Schreckgespenst WAA - (YouTube ca. 4 Min.), Schreckgespenst WAA - (Vimeo ca. 26 Min.)
  15. WAA-Schlachten - (YouTube ca. 2 Min.)
  16. Wackersdorf - Ein Mythos? - (YouTube ca. 4 Min.), Wackersdorf - Ein Mythos? - (Vimeo ca. 24 Min.)
  17. Lieber heute aktiv als morgen radioaktiv - (YouTube ca. 6 Min.)
  18. Zaunkämpfe - (YouTube ca. 4 Min.)
  19. Kirche unterstützt Mahnwache am Wackersdorfdenkmal - (Salzburger Nachrichten on YouTube ca. 5 Min.)

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