Wolfgang Renneberg

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Wolfgang Renneberg is a German university professor , physicist and fully qualified lawyer . He heads the Atomic Safety Bureau he founded . From 1998 to 2009 Renneberg was head of the reactor safety , radiation protection and waste disposal department at the Federal Environment Ministry . Before that he was spokesman for the Hamburg Office for Environmental Protection . He also worked temporarily as a professor at the Institute for Safety and Risk Sciences at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna . Renneberg is one of the most respected experts in reactor safety.

Act

Renneberg had as head of Nuclear Safety at the Federal Environment Ministry in 2000 together with Rainer Baake the nuclear phase-out plan. Among other things, he hosted an international conference on the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in 2002. However, after Norbert Röttgen became Minister of the Environment after the 2009 Bundestag election and plans to extend the life of German nuclear power plants, Renneberg was dismissed from his position.

Since then, Renneberg has repeatedly appeared as an expert on safety issues in nuclear power plants , and has been requested as an expert by various nuclear-critical organizations.

In a study carried out by him on behalf of Greenpeace and published in 2011, heightened risks from the load sequence operation of nuclear power plants (adjustment of the output to compensate for fluctuations in the power grid with increasing proportions of wind and solar power) were analyzed. The load-following operation means "permanent stress" for the nuclear power plants, which leads to increased loads and requirements in practically all safety-relevant areas of the plant ".

On behalf of the Green Group in the European Parliament , the Atomic Safety Bureau, headed by Renneberg, carried out a study to review the stress rest criteria for nuclear power plants . The conclusion of the study was that the stress test was largely based on information from the operators of the nuclear power plants, only dealt with a small section of the safety issues, and therefore "due to its concept and methodology, it could not provide any information about the safety of the nuclear power plants".

Renneberg was one of the experts who commented on the Site Selection Act on June 10, 2013 , which came into force on July 26, 2013. Among other things, he called for a stronger weighting of science and environmental associations in the composition of the commission, as well as an explicit ban on the export of radioactive waste abroad.

The association FORUM - Together against the interim storage facility and for a responsible energy policy e. V. commissioned Renneberg with a study on the question of the requested power increase in the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant . In the study published in mid-November 2013, Renneberg and his co-author Dieter Majer came to the conclusion that the system “does not meet the requirements of the state of science and technology in areas that are critical in terms of safety”. According to this, "an approval of the power increase is neither technically justifiable nor legally permissible under the Atomic Energy Act". After the Bavarian state government also viewed the increase in output as problematic, the operators of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant withdrew their application for an increase in output in mid-December 2013. FORUM spokesman Raimund Kamm attributed this development to Renneberg's study.

Fonts

  • Rudolf Steinberg , Ulrich Mutschler, Wolfgang Renneberg: The future of nuclear energy. Research Center for Environmental Law, University of Hamburg, 1991.
  • Wolfgang Renneberg: Periodic safety review and the principle of proportionality when retrofitting nuclear power plants. In: Rudolf Steinberg: Reform of the nuclear law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-7890-3270-0 .
  • Wolfgang Renneberg: The European regulation of the nuclear sector from the point of view of the Federal Environment Ministry. In: Hans-Joachim Koch , Alexander Roßnagel : 12th German Atomic Law Symposium, Cologne, 7. – 8. October 2003. Nomos publishing company, 2004.
  • Wolfgang Renneberg: Nuclear supervision administration by the Federal States on behalf of the Federal Government or Direct Federal Administration for Optimum Achievement. In: International Journal for Nuclear Power. 50 (1), 2005, p. 15 ff.
  • Wolfgang Renneberg: Risks of old nuclear power plants. Study on behalf of the Bundestag parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen. Bonn 2010.
  • Wolfgang Renneberg: Lifetime extension and nuclear safety - on the legal and technical context of the 11th and 12th AtG amendment. In: Journal for New Energy Law. 15 (2), 2011, pp. 106-113.
  • N. Müllner, W. Liebert, W. Kromp , S. Sholly, G. Kastchiev, K. Gufler, N. Arnold, W. Renneberg: The future role of nuclear energy in Europe; Frequently asked questions (FAQ) . (= Ministry of Life. 32). Vienna, June 13, 2013. (bmnt.gv.at)
  • Wolfgang Renneberg, Dieter Majer: Risks of the operation of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant with special consideration of the requested power increase. Institute for Safety and Risk Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, November 12, 2013. Accessed November 29, 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Atomic Safety Bureau . Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  2. ^ Herbert Schäfer: Breakdowns when shipping. In: The time . August 12, 1988. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  3. ↑ Boku.ac , accessed December 1, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c Anita Blasberg, Matthias Geis, Tina Hildebrandt , Anna Kemper , Roland Kirbach, Henning Sußebach , Wolfgang Uchatius , Stefan Willeke : The poker around 17 nuclear reactors. ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Die Zeit. March 24, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ BMU : Speech by Wolfgang Renneberg Director-General: Nuclear Safety, Radiation Protection, And Nuclear Fuel Cycle. ( Memento of November 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Madrid, May 24, 2001. Retrieved on November 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ BMU: International symposium on the decommissioning of nuclear facilities in opened. Press release of October 14, 2002. Accessed November 29, 2013.
  7. ^ Bureau for atomic safety: In the media (collection of web links). Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ Bureau for Atomic Safety: Limits and safety risks of load sequence operation of nuclear power plants. Study commissioned by Greenpeace, 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  9. ^ Bureau for Atomic Safety: The European "Stress test" for Nuclear Power Plants. Expertise on behalf of the Parliamentary Group of the Greens / EFA in the European Parliament. Bonn, October 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
  10. ^ German Bundestag: Criticism of experts on the site selection law. Summary of the meeting of the Environment Committee on June 10, 2013. Accessed November 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ BMU: Site Selection Act comes into force. Press release of July 26, 2013. Accessed November 29, 2013.
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Renneberg: Opinion on the draft law on the search and selection of a location for a repository for heat-generating radioactive waste and on changing other laws (Location Selection Act - StandAG). ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Environment Committee of the German Bundestag, expert hearing on June 10, 2013. PDF, accessed on November 29, 2013.
  13. ↑ Wolfgang Renneberg, Dieter Majer: Risks of the operation of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant with special consideration of the requested increase in output. Institute for Safety and Risk Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, November 12, 2013. Accessed November 29, 2013.
  14. ↑ Gundremmingen NPP: Gundremmingen nuclear power plant withdraws the application for an increase in output. December 17, 2013. Accessed December 31, 2013.
  15. ↑ Thomas Steibadler: RWE is not expanding the nuclear power plant in Gundremmingen . In: Südwest Presse. December 19, 2013. Accessed December 31, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Renneberg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, physicist and fully qualified lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century