German Atomic Energy Commission

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The German Atomic Commission (sometimes also spelled German Atomic Commission , abbreviated DAtK ) was an advisory body of the German federal government , which existed from 1956 to 1971. The radiation protection commission , which still exists today , later emerged from one of their working groups .

The task of the Atomic Commission was to advise the then Federal Ministry for Atomic Issues (renamed the Federal Ministry for Nuclear Energy and Water Management in 1957) on all essential matters "related to the research and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes".

Under the chairmanship of the minister, in 1956 this was Franz Josef Strauss , the commission comprised 27 people from science, technology, business and the trade unions, including Werner Heisenberg , Ludwig Rosenberg , Wilhelm Fucks , Otto Haxel , Hermann Josef Abs , Gerhard Hess u. a. Otto Hahn , State Secretary Leo Brandt and Karl Winnacker were appointed vice-presidents with equal rights . The Atomic Energy Commission convened five other specialist commissions to deal with individual tasks.

Expert Commission IV on Radiation Protection was formed in early 1956, and was the immediate predecessor of today's Radiation Protection Commission. The expert commission was again assigned to five working groups:

  • III / IV / I "Radiation protection and safety in nuclear facilities"
  • IV / 2 "Radiation measurement method"
  • IV / 3 "Radiation protection when handling radioactive substances"
  • IV / 4 "Radiation Biology" and
  • IV / 5 "Legal and administrative questions of radiation protection".

The commission existed until 1971. After 1971, it was replaced by four technical committees.

The commission was involved in the conception of the first German nuclear program in 1957 , also known as the "Eltville program".

It should not be confused with the commission to review the financing of the nuclear phase-out , which between October 2015 and April 2016 developed a proposal for the then federal government to finance the phase-out of nuclear energy.

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  1. ↑ Karl Winnacker: Never lose heart - memories of fateful years in German chemistry. Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf-Vienna 1971.
  2. ↑ Joachim Radkau , Lothar Hahn : Rise and fall of the German nuclear industry . oekom, Munich 2013. pp. 104f. and 108.