GNS Society for Nuclear Service
| GNS Society for Nuclear Service mbH
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1977 |
| Seat |
Essen Germany
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| management | Hannes Wimmer |
| Number of employees | 450 |
| sales | 250 million euros |
| Branch | Nuclear technology |
| Website | www.gns.de |
| Status: 2019 | |
The Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service mbH (GNS) is a products and services in the field of waste management and decommissioning of nuclear facilities specialized company. Its best-known product is the Castor cask for spent fuel elements and high-level radioactive waste. GNS emerged in 1977 from GNT Gesellschaft für Nukleartransporte mbH, founded in 1974 .
GNS is represented nationally and internationally with several locations and has its headquarters at Frohnhauser Strasse 67 in Essen. The companies of the GNS Group together have around 450 employees and generate sales of over 250 million euros.
owner
The GNS shareholders are PreussenElektra (48%), the RWE subsidiary RWE Nuclear (28%), the EnBW subsidiary Südwestdeutsche Nuklear-Entsorgungs-Gesellschaft (18.5%) and Vattenfall Europe (5.5%).
Main holdings
GNS holds 100% of the following companies:
- WTI Scientific and Technical Engineering Consulting GmbH in Jülich
- Höfer & Bechtel GmbH in Mainhausen
- Eisenwerk Bassum GmbH in Bassum
Former subsidiaries
As part of the reorganization of responsibilities in the nuclear waste management GNS 2017 your 75% share in the German Company for the Construction and Operation of Waste Repositories as well as the 100% interests in the transport container storage facility , the waste storage facility and the transport container storage facility at the Confederation submitted.
Until its merger with GNS on September 30, 2004, there was a 100% participation in Gesellschaft für Nuklear-container mbH (GNB) - specializing in the development and manufacture of nuclear containers (e.g. CASTOR containers).
Recalled CASTOR containers
In 2014 the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) prohibited the use of a total of 44 containers for nuclear waste with high heat generation. The reason is a possibly incomplete check of the container on delivery. Four castors are already loaded and are in the interim storage facility at the Unterweser nuclear power plant in the Wesermarsch district . The Federal Environment Ministry says: "The fact that quality regulations for Castor containers are not adhered to is simply not acceptable."
Individual evidence
- ^ GNS - company. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
- ↑ GNS - shareholders and participation. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c GNS - shareholders and participation. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Law on the reorganization of responsibility in nuclear waste management - Storage and transport of hazardous goods - News - JURION. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
- ^ GNS - Sale of the DBE to the federal government under one roof. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
- ^ BGE - organization. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
- ↑ GNS - Interim storage activities of the GNS transferred to the federal government. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
- ^ New interim storage company started in Essen - BGZ Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung mbH. Retrieved October 5, 2018 (German).
- ↑ GNB is merged with GNS . GNS. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
- ↑ No security check: Castoren called back. In: NDR . September 5, 2014, archived from the original on September 8, 2014 ; Retrieved September 5, 2014 .