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Transport - Storage - Surveillance of Radioactive Waste

Safety of Nucleare Waste Management

Central interim storage facilities

Two central transport cask storage facilities (TBL) have been installed in storage halls made of reinforced concrete at the sites of Ahaus (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Gorleben (Lower Saxony). The Nord interim storage facility located near Lubmin in the borough of Rubenow (Lubmin authority) in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a facility for treating and storing all types of radioactive waste.

A licence for the storage of high-level radioactive vitrified waste block containers being returned from the AREVA NC reprocessing plant in France (former COGEMA) has only been granted for the Gorleben TBL. The TBL Ahaus not only stores spent power reactor fuel elements but also spent fuel elements originating from research reactors.

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