Overview
- An internal environment ministry draft to revise the site-selection law removes the 2031 target for naming a repository site, according to reports of the document.
- The ministry confirmed only that the draft is being prepared and in internal coordination, while BGE and BASE declined substantive comment.
- Previous expert work commissioned by BASE indicated the decision could realistically slip into the 2050s–2070s.
- Minister Carsten Schneider had pledged to speed up the search and promised a bill in early 2026 to enable faster progress from 2027.
- Operational pressures persist in interim management, with courts upholding transports of 152 casks from Jülich to Ahaus carrying roughly 300,000 spent fuel elements under a permit running to August 2027.