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Archive: For the BfE relevant statements from the BfS

On 30 July 2016, the federal tasks of supervision and licensing in the fields of repository site selection, nuclear safety, interim storage and repository surveillance were transferred from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) to the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE) foundet in 2014.

Many of these topics, to which the BfS has positioned itself in the past, are still relevant for the work of the BfE today. This section contains relevant BfS comments from the years 2010-2016.

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Storage/Transports Action against the Brunsbüttel interim storage facility

The Federal Administrative Court rejected the complaint of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection against non-admission of the revision in the procedure concerning the Brunsbüttel on-site interim storage facility. With this decision the judgment of the Higher Administrative Court (OVG) Schleswig has become final and the storage licence for the Brunsbüttel interim storage facility is revoked.

more2015.01.16

Storage/Transports Damaged waste drums: References to the Konrad mine misleading

In reports on damaged waste drums it is frequently stated that already years ago, these drums should have been emplaced in the Konrad repository.

more2014.09.06

nuclear safety BfS rejects claim of German Atomic Forum

The BfS rejects untrue statements made in a speech by the Ralf Güldner, President of the German Atomic Forum, at the 45th Annual Meeting Nuclear Energy. The speech was published by the German Atomic Forum on 6 May 2014.

more2014.05.06

Storage/Transports Statement by BfS President Wolfram König on the Law on the Selection of a Repository Site

Statement on the draft of an Act concerning the Search and Selection of a Site for a Repository for Heat-Generating Radioactive Waste and the Amendment to Other Laws (Site Selection Act – StandAG), Bundestagsdrucksache 17/13471, at the Hearing of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the German Bundestag on 10 June 2013 in Berlin

more2014.05.06

Storage/Transports Statement on disposal in the Ethics Committee’s final report

In its final report of 30 May 2011, the Ethics Committee recommends that the disposal problem must be solved, irrespective of phase-out scenarios and operational times. Furthermore, it recommends that the wastes should be disposed of such that they can be retrieved and that they meet even the highest safety requirements. Also, the radioactive wastes having arisen in Germany should be disposed of in Germany. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection responsible for radioactive waste disposal states that the proposals of the Ethics Commission on Disposal correspond with the findings and conclusions the BfS gained with the previous experiences in radioactive waste management, in particular in the Asse mine.

more2011.07.02

Current statements

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