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Looking back on safe ND 2025: BASE research symposium

Description: Looking back on safe ND 2025: BASE research symposium From September 17 to 19, 2025, the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) hosted the third Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on the Safety of Nuclear Disposal Practices (safe ND ). Skip to content Hide Show Key topic of safeND 2025 Video footage of safeND 2025 Photo Gallery for safeND 2025 Outlook: safeND 2027 & Young Scientists Award Scientific Committee Overview of programme and abstracts Under the theme “Time as a Safety Factor: Opportunities and Challenges of Timely Nuclear Waste Disposal,” the safeND symposium took place for the third time from September 17 to 19 at the Radialsystem in Berlin. This year, the event once again focused on international and interdisciplinary exchange regarding the current state of research in the field of nuclear waste disposal. A total of 350 participants from 18 countries attended. Key topic of safe ND 2025 safe ND 2025 took place in Berlin from September 17 to 19, with the following main theme: “Time as a safety factor: opportunities and challenges of timely nuclear waste disposal.” The development and implementation of concepts for the disposal of nuclear waste that ensure long-term safety is a complex socio-technical challenge that requires, in particular, extensive geological exploration, engineering research, numerical simulation, and long-term public awareness. However, the technical weaknesses of such a disposal concept are not the only risks to society. It is essential that timely implementation be considered as a central safety factor. The urgency of the safety factor of time stems not only from the fact that the radioactivity of nuclear waste is currently at its highest and decays over time, but also from the fact that high-level radioactive waste is currently stored above ground in most parts of the world. This above-ground storage makes this waste vulnerable to various geopolitical threats, including military conflicts, radical changes in existing political institutions, and the consequences of climate change. The overarching question of the event was therefore: How can we adequately account for the time factor when assessing the safety of nuclear waste management programs? Video footage of safe ND 2025 Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch auf der safeND2025 Prof. Dr. Harald Leschs Redebeitrag über die Herausforderungen der nuklearen Entsorgung auf der safeND 2025. On the BASE YouTube channel, you can find all the video recordings from safeND 2025 . Here are the highlights of the event, including opening remarks by the BASE president, selected panel discussions, and presentations. Photo Gallery for safe ND 2025 A banner welcomes guests to safeND 2025 at Radialsystem Berlin. © BASE Participants were registered in the reception area. Approximately 350 people from 18 countries attended safeND 2025. © BASE Get-together: A chance to meet new people and network © BASE Jochen Ahlswede, Head of Research and Long-Term Documentation, speaks about the BASE research agenda. © BASE Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch addressed the participants via a video message. © BASE Andrew Stirling of the University of Sussex during his presentation at safeND. © BASE Panel discussion with Anna Storm (Linköping University, Sweden), Sönke Reiche (Federal Agency for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Germany), Christoph Hamann (Federal Agency for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste, Germany), Allison Macfarlane (University of British Columbia, Canada), Kai Hämäläinen (STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland) (from left to right) © BASE Klaus-Jürgen Röhlig of Clausthal University of Technology during his presentation at the safeND. © BASE Dörte Fouquet of Leuphana University Lüneburg during a discussion at safeDN 2025. © BASE Group photo of the BASE organizing team for safeND 2025. © BASE Outlook: safe ND 2027 & Young Scientists Award BASE is planning the next edition of the research symposium for October 6–8, 2027. As part of this fourth safe ND , the Young Scientists Award will be presented for the first time. The award will be given to a young researcher whose thesis (ranging from a bachelor’s thesis to a doctoral dissertation) is related to nuclear safety. Scientific Committee safeND Logo Wall © bildkraftwerk/kurc A scientific committee advised BASE on the selection of submissions from the Call for Contributions and on the compilation of the program. The members of the scientific committee were: Dr. Carla-Olivia Krauß, Institute of Technology and Management in Construction, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Dr. Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Florence-Nathalie Sentuc, Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH, Germany Dr. Holger Völzke, Safety of Storage Containers Division, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany Prof. Dr. Barbara Reichert, Institute for Geosciences, University of Bonn, Germany; Chair of Nuclear Waste Management Commission (ESK), Germany Dr. Jens Birkholzer, Energy Geosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Dr. Tim Vietor, Safety, Geology & Radioactive Materials Division, National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA), Switzerland Dr. Bo Strömberg, Unit for plant safety assessment, Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM), Sweden Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, Austria Dr. Catrinel Turcanu, Science, Technology and Society, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Belgium Prof. Dr. Anna Storm, Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, Sweden Dr. Luca Abele Piciaccia, Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA), Norway Dr. Markku Lehtonen, Department of Humanities, University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain Prof. Susan Molyneux-Hodgson, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK Prof. Dr. Dörte Fouquet, Sustainability Law – Energy, Resources, Environment, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany Dr. Nikolaus Müllner, Institute of Safety and Risk Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna Prof. Allison M. Macfarlane, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver Information leaflet safeND 2025 Flyer safeND 2025 Label: Flyer Download (PDF, 901KB, File meet accessibility standards)

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