The signatures were publicly handed over to State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth in Berlin on May 28.

Around 70,000 signatures are encouraging and strengthen the alliance partners in their continued action against all plans to store nuclear waste in Salzgitter. This is the conclusion drawn by Mayor Frank Klingebiel, the Salzgitter City Council, IG Metall, Landvolk and AG Schacht Konrad at the end of the objection campaign.

However, according to the working group (AG), signature lists are still being received. Even though the (legal) deadline expired at midnight on May 31, these will be forwarded immediately to the Federal Environment Ministry by the working group.

Objections could also be submitted directly to the Federal Environment Ministry by anyone in the Federal Republic of Germany during the deadline. The exact total number will be communicated in the next few days.

The Federal Environment Ministry assumes that around 600,000 cubic meters of low- and medium-level radioactive waste are at issue. However, Konrad is only approved for 303,000 cubic meters. The planned expansion of the shaft from Berlin has met with rejection throughout the region, and its general suitability is also in doubt.

The alliance partners are therefore united in their goal of continuing to take legal, political and imaginative action against the Konrad project.

Their demands go to the federal government, but also to the state government of Lower Saxony. In particular, Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Stefan Wenzel is called upon to "push through a concrete reassessment of Konrad as quickly as possible".