Bratrství Jáchymov
 
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Bratrství repository near Jáchymov in the Czech Republic
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Bratrství Jáchymov is a repository for radioactive operational waste from nuclear power plants in the Czech Republic .
location
The repository is located near Suchá, two kilometers east of Jáchymov .
history
The repository has been in the former uranium mine Bratrství Jáchymov , the former Saxon Edelleutstollen , set up and put into operation the 1,972th It should continue to operate until 2030.
In January 2000 the newly established authority for radioactive repositories of the Czech Republic (SÚRAO) took over the repository into state care.
Storage inventory
In Bratrství Jáchymov , waste with natural radionuclides , that is, nuclides from the uranium and thorium decay series, is stored about 50 m below the surface.
In the Czech Republic, a distinction is made between operational waste from nuclear power plants on the one hand and radioactive waste from medicine , industry and research (institutional waste) on the other. The latter are stored in the Richard facility .
Web links
- Our Activities: Europe - Czech Republic . ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Website of the German Society for the Construction and Operation of Repositories for Waste Materials mbH (DBE).
- Bratrství repository ( Bratrství repository ) on the website of the Czech authority SÚRAO (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Czech Radioactive Waste Authority starts work . Nuclear Forum Switzerland, January 5, 2000, accessed on March 11, 2017.
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 28 " N , 12 ° 56 ′ 24" E