Germany has a dirty little secret. In the middle of the country, deep underground, a radioactive waste dump has been leaking for decades. And nobody really knows what do to with it. #planeta #nuclearwaste #asse We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. Follow Planet A on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dw_planeta?lang=en Credits: Reporter: Kiyo Dörrer Video Editor: David Jacobi Camera, Henning Goll Supervising Editors: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann, Joanna Gottschalk Fact-Check: Kirsten Funck Thumbnail: Em Chabridon Read more: Information on Asse II by the operator BGE: https://www.bge.de/en/asse/ The water in the Asse II (German): https://www.bge.de/de/asse/themenschwerpunkte/themenschwerpunkt-das-wasser-in-der-asse/ Lower Saxony parliamentary investigative committee report from 2012 on political misconduct regarding Asse II (German): https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/18/CD09100/4.%20Materialien/K-MAT%203.pdf Examples of waste documentation compiled by Greenpeace (German): https://www.greenpeace.de/sites/default/files/media_type_pdf/1967_74_Asse-Begleitpapiere_m_Kommentar.pdf Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:33 The former salt mine at Asse 2:38 Going underground 5:28 The problem with the water 7:16 Instability of the mine 8:04 How could this happen? 10:40 The big removal 13:40 Local protest 15:04 Conclusion