Disposal of LLW and ILW in Germany - Characterisation and Documentation of Waste Packages with Respect to the Change of Requirements

Conference · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:21323113

Bandt, G; Spicher, G ^[1]; Steyer, St; Brennecke, P ^[2]

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1. TUV NORD EnSys Hannover GmbH and Co. KG (Germany)
2. Federal Office for Radiation Protection Germany, Salzgitter (Germany)

Since the 1998 termination of LLW and ILW emplacement in the Morsleben repository (ERAM), Germany, the treatment, conditioning and documentation of radioactive waste products and packages have been continued on the basis of the waste acceptance requirements as of 1995, prepared for the Konrad repository near Salzgitter in Lower Saxony, Germany. The resulting waste products and packages are stored in interim storage facilities. Due to the Konrad license issued in 2002 the waste acceptance requirements have to be completed by additional requirements imposed by the licensing authority, e. g. for the declaration of chemical waste package constituents. Therefore, documentation of waste products and packages which are checked by independent experts and are in parts approved by the responsible authority (Office for Radiation Protection, BfS) up to now will have to be checked again for fulfilling the final waste acceptance requirements prior to disposal. In order to simplify these additional checks, databases are used to ensure an easy access to all known facts about the waste packages. A short balance of the existing waste products and packages which are already checked and partly approved by BfS as well as an overview on the established databases ensuring a fast access to the known facts about the conditioning processes is presented. (authors)

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• OSTI ID: 21323113
• Report Number(s): INIS-US--10-WM-08363
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
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