Pupils in 2013 still strongly interested in disposal

In 2013 educational institutions show as much interest in the planned Konrad repository and the Konrad information centre in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, Chemnitzer Strasse, as ever.

Pupils of Gebhardshagen secondary school gather information at the Konrad information centre

This was confirmed by the pupils of Gebhardshagen secodary school (grade 10), who visited the mine on January 24 after listening to an introduction at the Konrad information centre. Their teacher, Ms. Elke Efken, regularly takes her pupils to the information centre and the Konrad mine when she teaches physics classes. It is important, she says, that young people learn to tackle the topic of disposal of radioactive waste and to ask critical questions with respect to the facts they are presented with. So the pupils asked questions concerning the mine and disposal in general, but also questions focussing on the current measures taken on site and at the Schachtanlage Asse II.

As many as ten educational institutions have taken the opportunity to visit the mine in January alone. In 2012, a total of 55 groups from schools, universities and academies came to see the Konrad mine with their own eyes.