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Nuclear technology

Waste management

We create reliable, specification-compliant, assessor-satisfying and goal-oriented permanent disposal site documentation for operators of nuclear power plants and research institutes.

With the provisional disposal law (EntsorgÜG) that entered into force in June 2017, responsibility for the temporary storage of radioactive waste was transferred to the federal Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung mbH (BGZ). The responsibility for the correct packaging and declaration of the waste remains with the operators.

Radioactive waste must fulfil the specifications of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) regarding transportation and permanent disposal and is therefore subject to appropriate conditioning. The prerequisite for the storage of medium and low-level radioactive waste in the KONRAD repository is proof of the fulfilment of all legal requirements in substantial disposal site documentation.

We stand for professional competence in conditioning and documentation.

For you as operators of nuclear power plants or research institutes, our experts create reliable, specification-compliant, assessor-satisfying and goal-oriented disposal site documentation according to your requirements. We have the necessary professional competence and long-standing experience within the field of conditioning. We are familiar with all details of the approval procedure for the storage of medium and low-level radioactive waste in the KONRAD repository. Kraftanlagen Heidelberg will assist you with the requisite know-how and shall support you with its broad spectrum of integrated services under one roof.

Our services

  • Support during the BGE registration procedure and/or campaign application for the conditioning of radioactive waste
  • Creation of qualification measures and procedure plans
  • Entry of conditioning data in AVK
  • Radiological and material description of the waste for the KONRAD repository
  • Activity determination and examination of the intermediate storage and permanent storage suitability
  • Activity calculations with AVK-Mopro

 

 

  • Determination of nuclide vectors and creation and registration of material vectors
  • Creation of waste data sheets
  • Compilation of KONRAD admissible waste containers
  • Creation of complete container documentation
  • Planning the treatment of legacy waste  (post-qualification, secondary packaging, post-conditioning, post-declaration)
  • Additional complete waste documentation for research institutes according to their requirements 

Thanks to ongoing projects in the area of waste declaration as well as the continued professional development of our employees through specialist conferences and seminars, the waste management team at Kraftanlagen Heidelberg is always one step ahead.

Our reference projects

CERN: Engineering of a disposal centre for radioactive waste

A three-party intergovernmental agreement between CERN and the host countries of France and Switzerland has regulated the disposal channels and the acceptance criteria for radioactive waste from the…
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GSI Helmholtz Zentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH: Planning tasks for the FAIR particle accelerator in Darmstadt

Kraftanlagen Heidelberg provided design services in the areas of machine construction and apparatus engineering which also included vacuum and cryogenic requirements.
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ITER: Detailed engineering of a system for the removal of tritium from process water contaminated with tritium.

The fusion reactor ITER, an international research project, has been built in Cadarache in the south of France since 2012. Kraftanlagen Heidelberg has created two concepts for the retention of tritium…
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ITER: Concept review

When the decision was reached to erect ITER in France and not, as was originally planned, in Japan, it became necessary to ensure the plant's safety according to European standards for nuclear…
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ITER: Detailed engineering of systems for the retention of tritium in the Tokamak building and in the hot cells.

The fusion reactor ITER, an international research project, has been built in Cadarache in the south of France since 2012. Kraftanlagen Heidelberg has created two concepts for the retention of tritium…
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Many years of engineering services for CERN

In 1998, Kraftanlagen Heidelberg (KAH), as part of a consortium with Assystems Services (formerly Thales), Paris, was tasked with taking over the full-time design and engineering planning of the Large…
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