"Radioactively green"? Kategorie: Nuclear safety |Date: 2019.12.27

Wolfram König, the President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management, wrote a reader’s letter, which was published in abbreviated form in SPIEGEL magazine (53/2019) on 27 December 2019. It commented on the article entitled “Radioactively Green”, which had appeared in the 51st issue.

The risks of using nuclear power Kategorie: Nuclear safety |Date: 2019.11.27

“The study shows that the risks of nuclear power are overestimated in the population and the danger of elements like radon, for example, are underestimated,” says a report by the German Press Agency (dpa), citing the Federal Office for Radiation Protection. The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management has issued the following statement regarding this:

Safety versus transparency Kategorie: Interim storage facilities |Date: 2017.06.20

On the decision of the Berlin Administrative Court about the CASTOR transports from Obrigheim to Neckarwestheim which was licenced subject to strict safety conditions

Environment Committee: BfE on the Repository Site Selection Act Kategorie: Site Selection |Date: 2017.03.07

On the occasion of the consultation of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag on 8 March 2017 regarding the draft bill regarding the further development of the Act on the Search for and Selection of a Site for a Repository for Heat-Generating Radioactive Waste, the President of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE), Wolfram König, provides the following comments.

Search for a repository: We need a solution that provides security for many thousand years Kategorie: Site Selection |Date: 2017.02.22

40 years after Gorleben was designated a site for a Nuclear Waste Management Centre, the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste is facing a new start. In a commentary for the Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung of 22 February 2017, Wolfram König, President of the BfS and the BfE, comments on mistakes made in the past and opportunities for the current search procedure.