Announcement - site selection procedure

Invitation to start of site selection procedure:

Tuesday 5 September 2017, 2pm-5pm
Events Centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Markgrafenstrasse 38, 10117 Berlin

With a “look back and ahead”, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) will introduce the start of the site selection procedure.

Federal Environment Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks and members of the Bundestag’s parliamentary groups have enabled the restart of the final repository search.

The BGE is now taking the first step to find a location for the radioactive legacies of the nuclear age. During the event, we want to explore together where we have come from, what we have created and what will follow in the next few months.

The event is public. For organisational reasons, prior registration is required at veranstaltung(at)bge.de.

Programme:

from 2pm

Welcome
- Dr. Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Construction and Reactor Safety

Greeting
- Ursula Heinen-Esse, Deputy Chair of Directors for the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung

Keynote speeches
- Dr. Matthias Miersch, Bundestag member (SPD)
- Steffen Kanitz, Bundestages member (CDU / CSU)
- Sylvia Kotting-Uhl Bundestag member (Bündnis 90 / GREEN PARTY)

Introduction of the BGE and the concept for site selection
- Ursula Heinen-Esse, Deputy Chair of Directors for the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung

Introduction of the BfE
Wolfram König, President of the Federal Ministry for the safety of nuclear waste management

Introduction of the NBG
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Chair of the National Monitoring Committee

from 4pm

Reception

Final repository search in Germany