Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites, Recommendations of the AkEnd - Committee on a Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites

With the establishment of the “Arbeitskreis Auswahlverfahren Endlagerstandorte” (AkEnd) – the Committee on a Site Selection Procedure for Repository Sites, in the following referred as to as the “committee” - the Federal Minister for the Environment set up a discussion forum on radioactive waste disposal, which has been called for by the public for quite some time. With the support of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the Committee discussed the topic of waste disposal, irrespective of the different positions of the individual members concerning nuclear energy, in a constructive atmosphere contributing to find new scientific and societal approaches to solve the waste disposal problem