Repository storage criteria checks of radioactive waste evolving negligible amounts of heat

An important factor in the safe operation of repositories for radioactive waste are the conditions to be met by waste to be stored in these repositories as laid down in repository storage criteria, and checks of the radioactive waste for observance of the repository storage criteria. Final decisions cannot be made until the plans approval authority has approved the plans. The discussions about the documents filed in the plans approval procedure for the Konrad repository, and the subsequent demands made in this connection by the plans approval authority as well as modifications in the legal boundary conditions, have given rise to new facts. Their influence on repository storage criteria and on product checks of radioactive waste are discussed in this contribution. One of the major changes in the legal boundary conditions is the establishment of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, which has shifted to that Office the legal competence for the repository storage of radioactive waste, which used to rest with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). (orig./HP)