BfS Experts and Trainees of Salzgitter AG Jointly Discover Konrad

It’s not only local citizens of the Salzgitter region who are interested in Konrad. Apart from trainees of Salzgitter AG, experts of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection caught up on the repository project

The heads of the national ODL measuring facilities came to Salzgitter and visited INFO KONRAD. Subsequently, they visited the mine. Their work is not directly associated with Konrad. It is, however, in an indirect way, since the ODL measuring network also monitors the environmental radioactivity in the region around Konrad.

Debriefing of the visit to the mine

Ulrich Stöhlker has been with the Federal Office for Radiation Protection and its predecessor authority for 21 years. In Freiburg, the 52-year-old is head of section IMIS Measuring Tasks. Together with his colleagues, he used this opportunity to connect a meeting at BfS in Salzgitter with a visit to the mine. Like in every visit to the mine, there was an introduction at INFO KONRAD. Stöhlker was especially glad that the permanent exhibition at Chemnitzer Straße 27 also provides information about his field of work – environmental radioactivity. “The presentation is very comprehensive and well elaborated”, the BfS expert said. He praised the attendance through the INFO KONRAD team during the entire event. “It was also important that we could directly ask questions. The answers always were very detailed and descriptive, so that all of us know more than we did before.”

In contrast to the trainees of Salzgitter AG, Stöhlker had already been to Konrad previously. For them this was the first time! The prospective industrial mechanics were especially enthused by the underground ride in the Jeep. However, they thought it was a pity that there were so few stoppages. Ines Bräse had not known a lot about Konrad so far. “The film shown at INFO KONRAD is of a really good quality. It has especially answered many questioned which I would probably not have asked in this way”, the 21-year-old from Braunschweig said. Her fellow trainee Julian Bugdoll had not had any previous knowledge of Konrad. He only knew Konrad in connection with the film “The wonder of Lengede”. “After today I really do know more.”