Potentials for speeding up
The sinking of the recovery shaft (shaft 5) can be carried out regardless of the outcome of the trial phase for retrieval (fact-finding) and without touching the existing mine. That is one of the results from another expert workshop on the speeding-up of retrieval which was organised by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) in September 2012 in Wolfenbüttel.
Speeding up by parallelisation of workflow
It was set out that one could expect retrieval speeding up if the works on retrieval will be carried out independent of the results gained in the trial phase (fact-finding) and the works will be parallelised. One result of this would be, for example, that the new shaft or the interim storage facility can already be built before all results from the trial phase are available and before it has been clarified whether retrieval can be implemented at all.
"Lex Asse" speeds up work
This procedure for speeding up the process has been facilitated on account of the so-called "Lex Asse" (§ 57b AtG) becoming effective. The new Asse law permits the parallel planning of retrieval and the construction process of facilities required for retrieval (e.g. the recovery shaft and the interim storage facility) regardless of the outcome of the trial phase (fact-finding).