In Germany a broad range of facility types are actually being decommissioned. The variety offacilities includes SUR-100 educational reactors (to be dismantled within some days) as well as commercialpower plants, lab-based pilot plants for fuel reprocessing and commercial fuel element manufacturing plants.The actual decommissioning and dismantling projects comprise 19 power and prototype reactors, 33 researchreactors and 11 fuel cycle facilities which are being or have been decommissioned. The lack of a facility for thedisposal of decommissioning waste lead to a reduction of disposal volume for waste with negligible heatgeneration. Compared to the derived disposal volume for reference reactors in the nineties, actualdecommissioning projects will lead to slightly reduced waste volumes. This is achieved by improved compactionand packaging technologies as well as improvements in pre-dismantling sampling and measurements, the latterleading to more precise nuclide vectors and thus a better separation of materials for clearance. It has been shownthat the German regulatory framework is applicable to any type of nuclear facilities located in Germany,however, nuclear facility-specific boundary conditions have to be taken into consideration, such as specificnuclide vectors;contaminations of systems, buildings, soil and groundwater;limitations in space and others. Thisincludes radiation protection measures, clearance options and dismantling technologies as well as wasteconditioning and interim storage.
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