16.10.2019 Image: Dirk Hanus Dirk Image: Fotodesign 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 Freiberg, 2005 Freiberg, 25 years later: UMREG back home . UMREG – a WISMUT initiative . Bi-national US-German workshops on Remediation of decommissioned uranium mining 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) 2 UMREG 2019 Welcome address │ Chemnitz, October 7, 2019 1 16.10.2019 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 € 3 UMREG 2019 Welcome address │ Chemnitz, October 7, 2019 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 4 UMREG 2019 Welcome address │ Chemnitz, October 7, 2019 2 16.10.2019 Image: Dirk Hanus Dirk Image: Fotodesign 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 3.