Wackersdorf reprocessing plant

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Wackersdorf reprocessing plant

WAA module test bench (2014)
Built	1985 (start of construction)
Location	Wackersdorf (Bavaria, Germany)
Coordinates	[ ⚑ ] 49°19′14″N 12°13′57″E / 49.32056°N 12.2325°E / 49.32056; 12.2325
Industry	Nuclear reprocessing
Defunct	1989 (end of construction)

The Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant (German: Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Wackersdorf (WAA)) 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.

In the early 1980s, plans to build a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf led to major protests. Even during the initial clearing work, demonstrators attempted to occupy the construction site, erecting the Free Republic of Wackerland shantytown in 1985. After 18 days, it was cleared in January 1986 in a large-scale police operation. The district administrator of Schwandorf (district), Hans Schuierer, also refused to sign the necessary permits for the plant's construction. To circumvent the district administrator's blockade, the Bavarian State Parliament passed the "Lex Schuierer". Many people and politicians from Austria also demonstrated against the construction of the nuclear facility in Bavaria. Following entry bans and border blockades, the WAA conflict between Bavaria and Austria escalated.

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 1989. 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.

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Today, two official commemorative plaques of the Schwandorf district commemorate the construction of and the resistance against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant.^[4][5] In 2016, a commemorative plaque was unveiled at the Franziskus-Marterl, documenting the construction progress and the development of the resistance against the planned reprocessing plant up to the abandonment of the project.^[6] A similar information panel is also located on the former WAA site in front of the BMW plant.^[7]

Inscription:

The Wackersdorf reprocessing plant Project (WAA Wackersdorf)

To this day, there are still some monuments to the WAA resistance against the plant (see List of monuments related to the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant):

• Franziskus-Marterl (St. Francis shrine/chapel) with the Cross of Wackersdorf near the WAA. At the chapel-shrine in the mid-1980s, WAA opponents met every Sunday at 14:00 for an ecumenical prayer and then moved into the area or to the hoarding. This is the same place where today the "Marterlgemeinde" meet four times a year to a prayer: at the Chernobyl- and Hiroshima-commemoration in memory of the shrine's saint Francis of Assisi on 3 October and on Christmas Eve.^[8]
• Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival memorial stone at Lanzenanger in Burglengenfeld
• Anti-WAA ex-voto in the Kreuzberg Church at Kreuzberg in Schwandorf
• WAA resistance memorial in front of the lake facilities, Bregenz Festspielhaus (Austria)
• Wackersdorf Memorial (Salzburg) in Salzburg (Austria)

Some German documentaries about WAA were filmed.

• 1986: WAAhnsinn – Der Wackersdorf-Film [de; de] (documentary film) ^[9]

• 1986: WAA Wackersdorf: Strahlende Zukunft für die Oberpfalz (WAA Wackersdorf: A Radiant Future for the Upper Palatinate: Monitor-documentary by Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, Ekkehard Sieker, Helge Cramer) ^[10]

• 1986: 18 Tage freies Wackerland (The 18 Days of the Free Wacker Land: Medienwerkstatt Franken, Bibliothek des Widerstands Band 19, BellaStoria Film) ^[11][12]

• 1986: WAA-Schlachten (WAA Battles: Medienwerkstatt Franken, Bibliothek des Widerstands Band 19, BellaStoria Film) ^[13]

• 1987: Spaltprozesse (Fission processes - Wackersdorf 001: documentary film) ^[14]

• 1988: Zaunkämpfe (Fighting at the Fence: Medienwerkstatt Franken 1988, BellaStoria Film) ^[15]

• 1989: Restrisiko (Dokumentarfilm) [de; de] (The Remaining Risk or the Arrogance of Power: documentary film) ^[16]

• 1991: Das achte Gebot (1991) [de; de] (The Eighth Commandment: documentary film against nuclear energy) ^[17]

• 1996: Wackersdorf - ein Mythos? Was ist aus den WAA-Kämpfern von einst geworden? (Wackersdorf - a myth? What happened to the former WAA fighters? Medienwerkstatt Franken) ^[18]

• 2006: Schreckgespenst WAA – Widerstand in Wackersdorf (The WAA Heartburn: Resistance in Wackersdorf: Medienwerkstatt Franken, Bibliothek des Widerstands Band 19, BellaStoria Film) ^[19]

• 2006: Halbwertszeiten [de; de] (Half-lifes: documentary film) ^[20]

• 2009: Albtraum Atommüll [de; de] (The Nightmare of Nuclear Waste: ARTE-documentary film about the fate of nuclear waste and about the dangers of nuclear energy) ^[21]

• 2010: Der Fahrradspeichenfabrikkomplex (The Complex of the Bicycle Spoke Factory: Hörbuch-Feature 2010 von Angela Kreuz und Dieter Lohr)

• 2011: Kirche unterstützt Mahnwache am Wackersdorfdenkmal (The Church supports the picket at the Wackersdorf memorial, Salzburger Nachrichten) ^[22]

• 2012: Lieber heute aktiv als morgen radioaktiv (Better active today than radioactive tomorrow: contribution by Lars Friedrich in the TV magazine ttt – titel, thesen, temperamente) ^[23]

• 2017: Kampf gegen die WAA Wackersdorf (Fight against the WAA Wackersdorf), BR24^[24]

• 2019: Ende der WAA (1989) - Pfarrer Salzl und Hans Schuierer feiern das WAA-Aus am Bauzaun (End of the WAA 1989 - catholic priest Richard Salzl [de; de] and District Administrator Hans Schuierer celebrate the WAA's demise at the construction fence), BR24^[25]

Movies:

• 2018: Wackersdorf (film): In 2018, Oliver Haffner directed the film Wackersdorf starring Johannes Zeiler as Hans Schuierer, the fictional district administrator of Schwandorf who fights against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant (WAA) in Bavaria.

• WAA conflict between Bavaria and Austria
• Anti-nuclear movement in Germany

• Astrid Mignon Kirchhof, Helmuth Trischler: Civil society interaction – the Wackersdorf example in: ibid Pathways into and out of Nuclear Power in Western Europe Austria, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and Sweden. Deutsches Museum Studies 4, 2020 pp.148-149, ISBN 978-3-940396-92-1

• Hans Schuierer: When resistance becomes a Duty. - An unimaginable ordeal that became an important anti-nuclear milestone. speech 2014, beyondnuclearinternational 2019

• Radi Aktiv (magazine)^[26]

• Wiederaufbereitungsanlage Wackersdorf (Wackersdorf Reprocessing Plant), Historical Lexicon of Bavaria

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