Konrad information centre enjoys great popularity and welcomes 20,000th visitor

With Claudia Gelse from Holle by Hildesheim, Arthur Junkert, head of the Konrad information centre, welcomed the 20,000th visitor of the info centre on 25 July 2012.

With a bouquet Arthur Junkert thanks Claudia Gelse for her interest.

Since it was opened in May 2008, about 5,000 visitors per year have come to see the information centre. Approximately 4,000 visitors get an idea of the planned repository underground during an underground mine tour. The Konrad mine is the first repository for low-level and intermediate-level radioactive waste in Germany that has been licensed according to Atomic Energy Act. It is currently being converted into a repository.

Claudia Gelse was surprised by the good news. The 27-year-old commercial officer was accompanied by her volunteer colleagues from the German Red Cross Sarstedt. She had previously not dealt a lot with the topic of radioactive waste disposal. “Well, you read and hear a lot, so I just wanted to get a clear picture,” she explained.

It cost her quite an effort to enter the conveyor cage but she had had a different idea of the mine openings in a depth of 1,000 metres. I wouldn’t have thought that the roads are to huge and had expected higher temperatures”, she said after the tour.