BfS sets up three new measuring points near Asse
The probes have been installed at the request of the population / No noticeable deviations from the normal radiation level
The BfS has set up 27 measuring points in the area surrounding Asse. With these probes the radiation protection experts can measure artificial radioactivity.
The measuring network in the vicinity of the Asse repository has become even denser. At the request of the population the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has installed three further measuring probes in Remlingen, Wittmar and Groß Denkte. With the help of the measuring probes radioactive substances in the environment are registered. Everyone can have a look at the measured results on the internet (in German).
Since 2009, when the responsibility for the Asse mine was transferred to the BfS, 25 measuring points have been set up in the vicinity of the Asse II repository for low-level and intermediate-level radioactive waste. Thus the BfS intends to further enhance safety and confidence in the people living in the area of the Asse repository. All measuring installations show that there are no noticeable deviations from the normal radiation level.
The three new measuring probes are part of a close-knit measuring network of radioactivity operated by the BfS nation-wide. Via the measuring probes citizens can get information about the so-called local dose rate in their environment. The local dose rate is the radiation emitted by natural radioactive substances in the soil and by cosmic radiation. Should the radiation exposure increase because of artificial radioactivity in case of an accident, this would be registered by the measuring probes and trigger an alarm. Everyone who is interested in the issue can get information about the radiation levels at any time. By clicking the link on the internet a map will be opened depicting all around 1800 BfS measuring points of radioactivity set up nation-wide.
For example, if you wish to retrieve the results of the three new measuring points in Remlingen, Wittmar and Groß Denkte, you click the key word "Messstellenliste" in the map header. You can select for example the village of Remlingen by clicking on "Liste der Bundesländer" and selecting the key word "Niedersachsen". A chart will then open which has been depicting the radiation exposure in the village of Remlingen since 3 November. The chart shows that the radiation exposure in Remlingen (the so-called local dose rate) is clearly below the threshold limit value. Also the measuring installations in Wittmar and Groß Denkte show that there are no noticeable deviations from the normal radiation level.
Within a radius of ten kilometres around the repository there are measuring points in Remlingen (Asse repository), Remlingen (village), Groß Denkte, Wittmar, Kissenbrück, Ohrum, Wolfenbüttel and Schöppenstedt. Within a radius of 25 kilometres there are further measuring points in Hornburg, Liebenburg, Vienenburg, Cramme, Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, Salzgitter-Beddingen, Vechelde, Groß Gleidingen, Braunschweig PTB, Braunschweig-Watenbüttel, Cremlingen (OT Schandelah), Königslutter, Ingeleben, Hötensleben and Badersleben. Three further measuring points are worked in Helmstedt, Sehlde and in Lengede-Broistedt.