Information about the Neckarwestheim site (Baden Wurttemberg)

You will find a survey of the project dealing with the storage of spent fuel elements at the nuclear power plant site in this brief description (in German only):

Kurzbeschreibung zum Standortzwischenlager am Kernkraftwerk Neckarwestheim, Stand Mai 2001 (PDF, 4 MB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

The on-site interim storage facility applied for on 20 December 1999 and licensed 22 September 2003 was commissioned on 6 December 2006 with the emplacement of the first cask (type CASTOR®V/19). The interim storage facility has been licensed for maximum 40 years.

Before this interim storage facility had been licensed and completed, a so-called temporary storage facility had been operated from 10 April 2001 until 19 December 2006, where fuel elements had been stored until the interim storage facility was commissioned.

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

Standortzwischenlager am Kernkraftwerk Neckarwestheim: Genehmigung zur Aufbewahrung von Kernbrennstoffen (PDF, 936 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

1. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 22. März 2006, Umfirmierung (PDF, 77 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

2. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 28. September 2006, Einsatz der Prüfvorschrift PV 170 (PDF, 102 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

1. Ergänzung der Genehmigung vom 3. September 2007, Erhöhung der maximalen Anfangsanreicherung (PDF, 114 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

2. Ergänzung der Genehmigung vom 18. Februar 2010, Erhöhung der Anfangsanreicherung auf 4,05 Prozent (PDF, 105 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

3. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 11. Mai 2010, Aufbewahrung von ERU-Brennelementen (Enriched Reprocessed Uranium) (PDF, 134 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

4. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 13. Dezember 2013, Modifikation CASTOR V/19, Inventar (PDF, 366 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

5. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 16. April 2014, Aufrüstung der Krananlagen (PDF, 186 KB, File does not meet accessibility standards.)

6. Änderungsgenehmigung vom 9. August 2016, Aufbewahrung der KWO-Brennelemente (PDF, 471 KB, accessible)

Modifications / amendments currently applied for

• Use of the transport and storage cask TN 24 E
• Extension of the protection from disruptive actions or other third-party intervention (SEWD)
• Additional loading variants for the transport and storage casks CASTOR®V/19
• Storage of quivers with special fuel elements in casks of the CASTOR®V/19 type

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.