Zwilag
The Zwilag is an interim storage facility for all categories of radioactive waste in Switzerland . It is located next to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) site in Würenlingen . The operating company Zwischenlager Würenlingen AG was entered in the commercial register in 1990 as a stock corporation. It belongs to the Swiss nuclear power plant operating companies, proportionately to the output of the nuclear power plants.
The interim storage facility consists of a storage hall for spent fuel elements and vitrified high-level radioactive waste, a hall for long-lived medium-level radioactive waste and a hall for low-level and medium-level radioactive waste. The first fuel elements were delivered in July 2001 and the first glass canisters in December 2001 . The interim storage facility also has special facilities for the treatment of low-level radioactive waste, including a conditioning system for sorting mixed waste, compacting , treating liquid waste and cementing suitable for disposal, as well as a new type of plasma melting system .
Next to it is the federal interim storage facility for waste from medicine , industry and research , which is operated by PSI.
In May 2014 it became known that the capacity of the federal interim storage facility was 85 percent exhausted. To date, 5000 barrels and 120 containers of nuclear waste have been stored there.
In 2016, the repatriation of the Swiss radioactive waste from La Hague and Sellafield from the reprocessing (WA) of spent fuel elements was completed. The high-level vitrified waste is now stored in 23 Castor containers and the compacted medium-level waste is stored in 552 individual containers (e.g. barrels). The contents of these containers was one of the objects of the decades-long fierce debates about the WA with the nuclear power opposition.
Web links
- Zwilag website
- Critical comments from the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation
- Location of the Zwilag in the zone plans for emergency planning in the vicinity of the nuclear facilities (Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate) in the Swiss geoportal
Individual evidence
- ↑ The owners and operators of the Zwilag.Retrieved January 17, 2018
- ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Atomlager-ist-zu-85-Prozent-voll/story/21158181
- ↑ ENSI : Supervisory Report 2016
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '28 " N , 8 ° 13' 54" E ; CH1903: six hundred and fifty-nine thousand seven hundred and seven / 265900