For more than 30 years, the federally owned Wismut GmbH has been remediating and recultivating the legacies and consequences of excessive uranium mining and milling from the Cold War era in East Germany.

The transformation of a “mining legacy of singular dimensions” has become a significant international reference project for pioneering technologies in the remediation of radioactive mining legacies (NORM residues).

Wismut GmbH has extensive expertise in the application of complex remediation technologies on full scale.

Areas of expertise of Wismut GmbH:

• Plant dismantling, site remediation and area clean-up

• Remediation of tailings storage facilities

• Backfilling and recultivation of opencast mines

• Remediation of waste dumps

• Controlled flooding of underground mines

• Water management and water treatment

• Environmental monitoring, radiation protection, management of NORM

• Management of permits for complex mining remediation projects

• International knowledge transfer / capacity building

Over 30 years of experience in mine rehabilitation have shown, that transparency and the early involvement of affected groups (stakeholder dialogue) are crucial for successful and sustainable project implementation, and will also be important for the social acceptance of future mining projects worldwide (social license to operate).

As a federal company, Wismut GmbH advises international bodies such as the EU and the IAEA and offers its technical expertise to support projects in the raw materials sector and in the remediation of contaminated mine sites outside Germany, including Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Africa and South America.