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Transport - Storage - Surveillance of Radioactive Waste

Safety of Nucleare Waste Management

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):

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)

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.

State of 2016.09.20

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