The Asse mine at a glance: Latest issue of "Insights into the Asse Mine"

Fact-oriented and sober – that is the claim the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) makes on its public relations work. That also includes providing information on a regular basis about basic issues and current developments.

"Across Germany, the Asse mine is viewed as a project evoking associations," writes Wolfram König, President of the BfS, in the editorial of the 27 issue of the Insights into the Asse Mine. But do the associations and images correspond with the reality? What are the aims in the remediation of the project that receives national attention? What is currently happening in the Asse mine? What are the challenges?

Reason enough for us to publish this journal additionally via a daily newspaper at a supra-regional level this time; it is usually published locally around the Asse mine.

"Insights Into the Asse Mine No. 27" (February 2015)

The topics of the latest issue of Insights into the Asse Mine

• Retrieval is not an end in itself:
  About the legal mandate to safely decommission the Asse mine.
• The troubles of the plains:
  Without involving the public a mammoth project such as retrieval cannot be realised. That is not always easy.
• If worse comes to worst:
  Why the preparations for an emergency are vital but also controversial.
• The construction sites inside the mountain:
  Stabilising, sampling and sealing – a chart shows what is happening inside the Asse mine.
• Man and machine:
  Why speed is important to retrieval but not always realistic.
• Quick and cheap:
  The story of a bargain or how it happened that so much nuclear waste ended up in the Asse mine.

READ NOW THE CURRENT EDITION (in German only):

Asse Einblicke 27