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Ionising radiation Radioactivity monitoring: Improved software development

To further develop the system of radioactivity monitoring, the BfS counts on so-called open source software. Individual computer programs to exchange radioactivity data are now also made available to third parties under a free licence. The objective is to improve the individual components also in the future and to be able to adapt them to new functions.

more2017.01.02
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Ionising radiation Practising for emergencies: Radioactivity measurements from helicopters

From 20 to 22 September 2016, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection and the Federal Police will be carrying out training exercises in the area around Bayreuth with the objective of measuring the radioactivity of the soil from helicopters. The joint measurement exercises take place regularly so that measurement teams are ready for deployment at all times. The region around Bayreuth offers particularly good conditions for training flights as uranium and thorium are naturally present here in the environment.

more2016.09.16
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Ionising radiation North Korea: BfS supports Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

On 9 September 2016 at 2.30 a.m. Central European Summer Time, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization (CTBTO) registered earth tremors that had probably been caused by another underground nuclear weapons test in North Korea. In the CTBTO, various international institutions have been networked that carry out seismic infrasound, underwater acoustics and radioactivity measurements. In the scope of this Treaty, BfS monitors for Germany the radioactivity in the air and supports the Foreign Office in the professional evaluation of the data obtained.

more2016.09.09
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Ionising radiation German and Czech authorities measure radioactivity near the German border

On 6 and 7 September 2016, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection and the federal police force, together with the Czech National Radiation Protection Institute, measure the radioactivity in the area near the German-Czech border near Bayerisch Eisenstein and Železná Ruda and to the north-east of Spiegelau. The measurements are carried out from German and Czech helicopters.

more2016.09.01
Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection 1999-2017

BfS President König to take over the new Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management

After the Act on the Rearrangement of Organisational Structures in the Field of Radiation Protection and Radioactive Waste Disposal has become effective, the federal government has now filled central management positions. Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, will now lead the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE). Federal Minister Barbara Hendricks has appointed Ursula Heinen-Esser, Ewold Seeba, and Hans-Albert Lennarth founding directors of the new Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, BGE).

more2016.08.03

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