Interim storage facility north

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Interim storage facility north
The interim storage facility north, taken from the roof of the machine house of the Greifswald nuclear power plant

The interim storage facility north, taken from the roof of the power plant in Greifswald

location
Interim storage facility north (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Interim storage facility north
Coordinates 54 ° 8 '30 "  N , 13 ° 40' 32"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '30 "  N , 13 ° 40' 32"  E
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Country: GermanyGermany Germany
Data
Owner: Disposal works for nuclear plants
Operator: Disposal works for nuclear plants
Project start: July 13, 1994
Commercial operation: March 4, 1996
Start of storage: December 10, 1999
End of storage: Transport cask storage facility November 5, 2039
Storage type: Interim storage
Storage type: Dry storage
Conditioning: Yes
Storage area: 20,000 m²
Maximum weight: Waste storage 110,000 Mg
Transport container storage 585.4 Mg
Maximum radioactivity: Waste storage 4.5 × 10 17
Transport container storage 7.5 × 10 18 Bq
Maximum heat release: Transport container storage 600 kW
Website: Interim storage facility north
Was standing: February 11, 2011
The data source of the respective entries can be found in the documentation .

The Interim Storage Facility North (ZLN, also Interim Storage Facility Lubmin ) is a nuclear facility for the storage of low, medium and high level radioactive waste . It is located in the east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the Rubenow municipality , directly adjacent to the site of the former Greifswald-Lubmin nuclear power plant .

The facility is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the federally owned disposal works for nuclear plants GmbH (EWN) and is operated by them. The interim storage facility north is one of three central interim storage facilities in Germany. The other two are the Gorleben interim storage facility (Lower Saxony) and the Ahaus interim storage facility (North Rhine-Westphalia). There are also decentralized interim storage facilities directly at the nuclear power plant locations.

planning

Originally, the interim storage facility north was planned to exclusively accommodate the radioactive waste from the two former nuclear power plants of the GDR . The Greifswald-Lubmin (five reactors) and Rheinsberg (one reactor) nuclear power plants were shut down in 1990. The dismantling of these two nuclear power plants will also be carried out by EWN.

The construction of the interim storage facility was applied for in September 1992 and approved in July 1994.

Construction and operation

The almost three-year construction work in Lubmin was completed in August 1997. According to the operator, the construction costs amounted to 240 million euros.

The interim storage facility north can store both waste from the dismantling of nuclear power plants and fuel rods in transport containers . It consists of eight halls, which are structurally separated from each other, but are located in an 18 meter high building. Halls 1 to 5 can accommodate all types of containers. The state collection point for the federal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg is located in Hall 1 . Large components such as formerly contaminated reactor components are stored in Halls 6 and 7. Hall 8 is intended for the storage of fuel assemblies in a maximum of 80 Castor transport casks.

On November 5, 1999, the facility received a permit to store low and medium level radioactive substances indefinitely and high level radioactive substances for a limited period until 2039.

The storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the Greifswald-Lubmin and Rheinsberg nuclear power plants took place between December 1999 and May 2006. The first Castor 440/84 fuel element cask was recorded on December 10, 1999, and a total of 65 such special casks of various types are now in stock.

Until the north interim storage facility was put into operation, the fuel elements from Greifswald and Rheinsberg were stored in an interim storage facility for spent fuel elements under water (ZAB). At the time of the shutdown at the Greifswald site, there were a total of 4802 irradiated fuel elements in the nuclear power plant blocks and the wet storage facility. Another 246 fuel elements were available at the Rheinsberg site. These fuel elements are to be completely relocated to a dry storage facility (ZLN) over the next few years.

extension

In April 2005, an application was made to store radioactive waste from the old federal states in the North Interim Storage Facility. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection granted permission for this in May 2010. Nuclear Cargo + Service GmbH also approved the transport of four Castor containers from the Cadarache nuclear research center in southern France to Lubmin. Both permits were limited to December 31, 2010.

The transport train from Cadarache started on December 14, 2010 and reached Lubmin two days later. The origin of the fuel rods in the four containers is given as “2000 to 3000” from the compact sodium-cooled nuclear reactor plant ( “Fast Breeder” ) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which was shut down in 1991, and 52 from the nuclear ship Otto Hahn , which was decommissioned in 1979 . So far, a total of 585  tons of highly radioactive waste can be stored in the interim storage facility north. After another transport train with five castors from the disused reprocessing plant in Karlsruhe reached the interim storage facility on February 17, 2011 , 74 of the 80 castor parking spaces are occupied.

A protest against the transports at the St. Nikolai Church in Stralsund in February 2011

criticism

The expansion of the North Intermediate Camp is meeting cross-party resistance in the region. Similar criticisms were made by various bodies, such as the current Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Erwin Sellering, and also by several environmental organizations , that the storage of “West German nuclear waste” in “East Germany” contradicts the polluter pays principle.

The federal government is examining the legal situation (as of summer 2011); For example, the question of whether the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania can refuse approval at all for a federally owned facility. The legal situation between the federal government and the federal state does not seem clear. The federal government also claims that “in this way the nationwide unique technical possibilities of the ZLN and the know-how of the operators can be used for a larger number of systems”. This serves the further development of the industrial location Lubmin and secure jobs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Until the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 on September 4th, the topic was a campaign issue.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Decentralized interim storage facilities - overview map of the power plant locations with on-site interim storage facilities. (No longer available online.) Federal Office for Radiation Protection , April 28, 2010, archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.de
  2. a b Christoph Seidler: Controversial nuclear waste transport: Radiant West scrap travels to the East. Spiegel Online , December 11, 2010, accessed December 16, 2010 .
  3. a b Few protests during Castor transport to Lubmin. (No longer available online.) Ostsee-Zeitung , December 16, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de
  4. a b Intermediate Storage North. nadir.org , accessed December 16, 2010 .
  5. a b c d Interim storage facility north. (No longer available online.) Energiewerke Nord , November 24, 2009, archived from the original on December 19, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ewn-gmbh.de
  6. a b c d Nuclear waste: Castor transport arrives in Germany. Spiegel Online, December 15, 2010, accessed December 16, 2010 .
  7. Federal Office for Radiation Protection grants approval for the transport and storage of high-level radioactive waste in Lubmin. (No longer available online.) Federal Office for Radiation Protection, May 12, 2010, archived from the original on November 24, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bfs.de
  8. a b Castor train reaches Lubmin. NDR , December 16, 2010, archived from the original on December 18, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 .
  9. New nuclear transport started - the Castor is rolling towards Germany. tagesschau.de , December 14, 2010, archived from the original on December 17, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 .
  10. Castor transport to Lubmin - nocturnal journey almost without incident. tagesschau.de, December 16, 2010, archived from the original on December 17, 2010 ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 .
  11. Castor demo in Greifswald remains peaceful. (No longer available online.) Ostsee-Zeitung, December 12, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 16, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de
  12. faz.net July 9, 2011: The fear of the atomic toilet