Spent fuel and decommissioning waste management from the Greifswald and Rheinsberg nuclear power plants

The licenses for decommissioning and dismantling of the two reactor stations were issued on 28 April 1995 for the Rheinsberg KKR, and on 30 June 1995 for the Greifswald KGR. At the KKR site, the turbine building is currently cleared and prepared for the option of establishing there a transport preparation hall for materilas awaiting transfer into the ERAM or ZLN storage facilities. At the KGR site since October 1995 the turbine building of unit 1-5 and the instrument building of unit 5 are cleared, removing plant components and equipment parts in pieces as large as possible, for transfer to the ZLN, where hall 7 is completed and will soon be commissioned. One steam generating unit has already been placed there for storage in March 1996. The paper discusses waste management activities performed covering spent fuel elements, operating wastes, solid residual materials from decommissioning, as well as the ZLN facility. (orig./DG)