Competent Public at INFO KONRAD

It’s not only local citizens who seek to gain information at INFO KONRAD. Increasingly more experts find their way to the information centre of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection at Chemnitzer Straße 27 in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt.

Participants in the FTU seminar visit INFO KONRAD

Today the INFO KONRAD team welcomed numerous experts: Staff members of the technical inspection authorities, licensing and regulatory authorities, of nuclear facilities, and of engineers and scientists of the nuclear industry. Within the scope of a seminar carried out by the Fortbildungszentrum für Technik und Umwelt (FTU) and a staff excursion of the Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) the experts signed up for the information session at INFO KONRAD and the subsequent visit to the mine. All visitors also deal professionally with radioactive waste and its disposal.

Dr. Christian Gronemeyer said: “I wanted to see with my own eyes where the radioactive waste will be stored later on. Usually one is always only a paper pusher and has hardly any idea.” The 54-year-old is a GRS expert working in the department “Disposal”. He deals, for example, with safety reports and informs BfS about his findings and, thus, supports BfS in granting licences. “The information centre is really broad-minded and friendly. I didn’t expect that. I would have loved to spend more time here, but naturally I’m also interested in how it looks like underground”, Gronemeyer said when he left.