On-site interim storage facility Gundremmingen (Bavaria)

The brief description provides you with a survey of the project dealing with the storage of spent fuel elements at the nuclear power plant site (in German):

Kurzbeschreibung zum Standortzwischenlager am Kernkraftwerk Biblis, Stand Dezember 2000 (PDF, 2 MB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

The on-site interim storage facility applied for on 25 December 2000 and licensed 19 December 2003 was commissioned on 25 August 2006 with the emplacement of the first cask (type CASTOR®V/52). The interim storage facility has been licensed for maximum 40 years.

Previously granted licences on the on-site interim storage facility (in German)

Genehmigung zur Aufbewahrung von Kernbrennstoffen im Standort-Zwischenlager in Gundremmingen der RWE Power AG, der E.ON Kernkraft GmbH und der Kernkraftwerk Gundremmingen GmbH vom 19. Dezember 2003 (PDF, 2 MB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

1. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 2. Juni 2006, Einsatz der Prüfvorschrift PV 170 GNB (PDF, 96 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

2. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 07. Januar 2014, Erweiterung des baulichen Schutzes gegen SEWD (PDF, 202 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

3. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 27. Februar 2015, Aufrüstung der Krananlagen (PDF, 172 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

4. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 27. Oktober 2015, Modifikation CASTOR® V/52, Inventar (PDF, 344 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

Modifications / amendments currently applied for

• none

Licensing authority

Since 30 July 2016, the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE) is the licensing authority for interim storage facilities for nuclear fuels. It has taken over this task from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) that had been responsible until then.