Miners carry out pioneering work by retrieving waste
Network plan shows steps to safely decommission the Asse repository
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection has presented the individual working steps for retrieving the radioactive waste from the Asse mine in a clear network plan. "This way, all interested persons can get an idea of the tasks we have to carry out until the repository will be decommissioned safely,"
a BfS spokesperson said. The network plan shows for everyone in a comprehensible manner how the individual steps of retrieval are built on one another and are interdependent.
How long the individual working steps take depends on what difficulties have to be overcome in the retrieval of the radioactive waste. "The miners carry out pioneering work here,” said the BfS spokesperson. “This is the first time that radioactive waste is retrieved from a deep repository. We cannot refer to earlier standards"
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