Experience with the Quality Control of Radioactive Waste Packages for the German Repository Konrad - 16493
- TUV NORD EnSys Hannover GmbH and Co. KG (Germany)
The German repository Konrad for radioactive waste with negligible heat generation is designed to accept 303,000 m{sup 3} of waste packages in total. Based on the Konrad licensing conditions, any treatment and conditioning of radioactive waste should be planned and carried out in accordance with the waste acceptance requirements of the repository Konrad in order to produce waste packages suitable for disposal. The qualification of the waste treatment processes and the resulting products are achieved by interaction of different parties involved. On behalf of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection - the competent German authority for disposal of radioactive waste - TUV NORD EnSys Hannover GmbH and Co. KG acts as one of the independent expert organizations for more than twenty years in the field of qualification of waste treatment campaigns and review of waste packages documentations. The permitted amount of nuclide activity in the radioactive waste packages depends on the characteristics of the radioactive waste products. Projecting a suitable strategy for loading the waste containers contributes to determine in advance, what requirements the radioactive waste products have to fulfill as well as what properties of the waste products need to be verified and documented during conditioning or treatment process. On the basis of various examples, it is being demonstrated how appropriate advance process planning can ensure that radioactive waste packages are generated to comply with the waste acceptance requirements. In consequence, technical measures due to requalification can be avoided even in case of unpredictable difficulties. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22838282
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US-19-WM-16493; TRN: US19V1475083637
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WM2016: 42. Annual Waste Management Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (United States), 6-10 Mar 2016; Other Information: Country of input: France; 14 refs.; available online at: http://archive.wmsym.org/2016/index.html
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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