citizens initiatives listen with mistrust but the situation today is different from fifty years ago the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of host rock have been studied around the world at the beginning but it s agree that a final repository under good geological conditions provides a high degree of safety due to its depth and that we should take advantage of that as long as we still can get money from all s we always assume that our society will continue to develop the way it has done for the past hundred hundred fifty years but what of a big natural disaster strikes that at that point the final storage issue won t be the priority anymore it ll be in last place i. trust that. many experts believe the time is ripe and yet decades will pass in germany before a final repository can start operating. why that s the case becomes very obvious here at the last