The Federal Office for Radiation Protection issued a statement on the risks of using nuclear power on 27 November 2019 in conjunction with the publication of a study dedicated to understanding the risks of radiation:

“The study shows that the risks of nuclear power are overestimated in the population and the danger of elements like radon, for example, are underestimated,” says a report by the German Press Agency (dpa), citing the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management has issued the following statement regarding this:

Any assessment of the risks of nuclear power cannot and must not be restricted to considering the radioactivity that is released during normal operations at power stations. Nuclear power is a high-risk technology. Disastrous accidents like those in Chernobyl and Fukushima and the disposal of extremely dangerous waste, which has still not been resolved anywhere in the world, must form part of a scientifically-based risk assessment. This was the reason why a large majority of members of the German parliament decided to abandon this technology in Germany.