Research reactor Hanover

Research reactor Hanover
Coordinates	52 ° 23 '2 "  N , 9 ° 48' 17"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '2 "  N , 9 ° 48' 17"  E
country	Germany
Data
operator	Hannover Medical School
start of building	2nd January 1969
Installation	January 31, 1973
Shutdown	December 18, 1996
Shutdown	March 13, 2008
Reactor type	TRIGA Mark I.
Thermal performance	250 kW
Neutron flux density	8 × 10 12  n / (cm 2 s)
was standing	February 2, 2009

The Hannover Research Reactor ( FRH ) was a research reactor with an output of 250  kW , which was operated from 1973 to 1997 at the Hannover Medical School for research purposes. The reactor plant was dismantled by 2007 and has since been released from the scope of the Atomic Energy Act .

history

Construction of the research reactor Hanover was after four years of construction was on January 2, 1969. pool reactor of the type TRIGA will eventually -Mark I am on Jan. 31, 1973 put into operation. It had a nominal power of 250  kW , the maximum thermal neutron flux was 8 × 10 ¹² n / cm ² s. The research reactor was used to produce radioactivity for nuclear medicine and, in cooperation with the University of Hanover, for activation analyzes in materials testing .

On December 18, 1996, the reactor was put into standstill in preparation for decommissioning . In 1999, all 76 were uranium - fuel disposed of away from the plant and in the US. On February 22, 2002, the Hanover Medical School applied to the Lower Saxony Ministry for Environment, Energy and Climate Protection to shut down the reactor . On May 8, 2006, the Ministry finally granted the permit for decommissioning.

The research reactor was then dismantled by Babcock Noell, a subsidiary of Bilfinger Berger . The reactor core was dismantled in June 2006. In total, around 7 tons of radioactive waste were dismantled and packaged and around 40 tons of residual materials were disposed of. The radioactive waste was handed over to the state collection point at Forschungszentrum Jülich . In 2007, the plant was released from the scope of the Atomic Energy Act ; the final shutdown was on March 13, 2008. The shutdown cost a total of almost 14 million euros.

The Hannover Medical School now wants to build a cyclotron for the production of radionuclides in positron emission tomography on the premises .

See also

• List of nuclear power plants
• List of nuclear reactors in Germany

Web links

• MHH dismantles reactor , MHH Info from June 2006, p. 12 (PDF file; 1.66 MB)

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1. ↑ Dismantling of the research reactor (TRIGA) of the Hannover Medical School ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Babcock Noell's information page 
2. ↑ List of nuclear facilities in the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Federal Office for Radiation Protection, November 2013
3. ↑ MHH dismantles outdated research reactor ( memento of the original from January 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Hannover Medical School from May 11, 2006