2000 Visitors at INFO KONRAD in Four Months

2. October 2008, Salzgitter-Lebenstedt – INFO KONRAD have welcomed their 2000th visitor today, 58-year-old Inge Schultze from Benthe. For this occasion, Federal Office for Radiation Protection Vice-president Henning Rösel has presented Ms Schultze with the volume "Peine, Paris, Pattensen” containing literary short stories from Lower Saxony.

Henning Rösel, Inge Schultze und Michael Linkersdörfer (v.l.n.r.)

“We are glad that the population take up INFO KONRAD so well”, says Rösel, who is also Konrad project manager. In May this year, the new information centre opened at Chemnitzer Straße 27 in Lebenstedt. 2000 citizens have since caught up comprehensively on the future repository. They made intensive use of the option of posing questions to the INFO KONRAD team. “It is our self-conception to comprehensively and openly answer questions and to respond to criticism. Our motto is we have something to dispose of but nothing to hide”, says Michael Linkersdörfer, head of INFO KONRAD.

Besides, citizens have the opportunity to visit the Konrad mine. Visiting the mine is very popular as many people want to see where the radioactive waste will be stored from the end of 2013. Visits to the mine are fully booked until the end of the year. The INFO KONRAD team already make reservations for the next year.

The new Konrad website is taken up well, too. About 10,000 internet users have sought information about the future repository and current developments on www.endlager-konrad.de so far.