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Archive: BfE relevant speeches and interviews of the BfS

On 30 July 2016, the federal tasks of supervision and licensing in the fields of repository site selection, nuclear safety, interim storage and repository surveillance were transferred from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) to the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE) foundet in 2014.

Here you will find key speeches and interviews of the BfE president Wolfram König from the years 2006-2015.

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Storage/Transports Nuclear disposal in the conflict area of technical necessities and societal realities

Due to the enormous long-term risks, radioactive waste disposal is – notwithstanding the polluter-pays principle – no task for nuclear power plant operators and other producers of such waste, but a task for the federal government. In the Atomic Energy Act, the legislator assigned the task of constructing and operating federal facilities for the disposal of radioactive waste to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

more2009.08.24

Public Safety against a dirty bomb

Speech given by the President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Wolfram König, at the 2nd Berlin Convention on National Security and Civil Protection in November 2006. This article contains a translation of Mr König’s speech.

more2006.11.22

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