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mg:Dr au Fotodesign Image: Dirk Hanus International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEA Technical Meeting of the Mining and Remediation Exchange Group

7–9 October 2019 ,

Welcome address Michael Paul Managing Director, Wismut GmbH , 2005

25 years later: UMREG back home

. UMREG – a WISMUT initiative

. Bi-national US-German workshops on Remediation of decommissioned and milling facilities, Albuquerque, 1993, and Chemnitz, 1994

. Multilateral Uranium Mine Remediation Exchange Group (UMREG): Sudbury/Berlin 1995, Vancouver 1997, Denver 1998, Schlema 2000, Bruges 2001/2007, Freiberg 2002/2005/2008, Oxford 2003, …

. 2015 Renaissance of coupling an UMREG TM to a Wismut event (Bad Schlema)

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The Wismut Project

BERLIN . Wismut performed substantial remediation work in the former Saxothuringian U province

. Main remediation tasks fulfilled or close to completion

. Successful remediation indispensable prerequisite for humans and the environment and offers possibilities of sustained safe reuse

. International reference project

. Accrued expenditures 1991/2014: 6.4 billion €

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Most recent advances and activities

. Finalization of the Lichtenberg Mine Waste Stabilization Project

. Commissioning of new multi-purpose building in Königstein

. Reconstruction of the Königstein WTP, Replacement of the Helmsdorf WTP

. 2nd supplementary administrative agreement for the remediation of abandoned Saxon U production sites (duration 2021-2035)

. Wismut U Mining Landscape became UNESCO World Heritage as part of Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří region

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mg:Dr au Fotodesign Image: Dirk Hanus International Atomic Energy Agency

IAEA Technical Meeting of the Uranium Mining and Remediation Exchange Group

7–9 October 2019 Chemnitz, Germany

Welcome address Michael Paul Managing Director, Wismut GmbH

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