Assessment of the success of rehabilitation at waste rock piles of the former uranium mining from the supervisory authority’s perspective by the example of Schlema-Alberoda (Germany)

The Wismut GmbH has the obligation to rehabilitate the damages at their legacies resulting from the former uranium ore mining. According to the legislations in Germany, the handling with radioactive material is subject to the regulatory control through licensing. As a result of the rehabilitation measures, the limit of 1 mSv per year on the effective doses for public exposure must not be exceeded. In this article, the success of rehabilitation from the supervisory authority’s perspective is debated.