Dry spent fuel storage in Germany status in 1995 and prospects
- Gesellschaft fuer Nuklear-Service mbH, Essen (Germany)
- Brennelement-Zwischenlager Ahaus GmbH (Germany)
- Energiewerke Nord GmbH, Greifswald (Germany)
- Brennelementlager Gorleben GmbH (Germany)
The German back-end policy until mid `94 was primarily based on reprocessing. Direct disposal was an acceptable alternative only when reprocessing was not available or economically not feasible. However, a law was passed in 1994 by Parliament which lifts these conditions applied to the choice of the final disposal route. For the THTR (Thorium High Temperature Reactor) fuel there was no reprocessing available and therefore the decommissioning of this reactor required the unloading of its fuel into dry storage casks. At the beginning of Nov `94 more than 260 CASTOR casks are already stored at the Ahaus site. The other storage facility at Gorleben was intended to be opened in July `94 with the CASTOR IIa, containing 4.5 t of HM. However, though the cask was loaded it is in early `95 waiting for its transport approval. The AVR-Reactor at the Juelich Research Center has been shut down and its fuel is also stored in casks. In early `95 around 50 are already loaded and transferred into the on-site storage facility. At the same time at the Greifswald site in former GDR a big storage facility is under construction. This facility has to receive all the wastes resulting from the decommissioning of the WWER 440 Voronesh-type reactors and the spent fuel also to be stored in casks.
- OSTI ID:
- 178080
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950917--; ISBN 0-7918-1219-7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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