Christian Küppers

Recent projects

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• Decommissioning nuclear power plants

  Recycling of technology metals from the dismantling of nuclear facilities under consideration of radiation protection regulations (RecTecKA) - Subproject: Project coordination together with ecological and radiological assessments

  05/01/2021

  At the Philippsburg site with the two nuclear power plants Philippsburg Unit 1 and Unit 2, decom-missioning and dismantling activities are currently being prepared intensively or are already in pro-gress. At this site, an applied research project is being carried out with the aim of identifying rec

• Plant safety

  Safety analysis and risk assessment of an application of Small Modular Reactors

  07/01/2020

  The project gives an overview of currently internationally pursued reactor concepts of so called "small modular reactors" (SMR), a scientific assessment of possible fields of application and a discussion of the associated safety issues and risks.

• Decommissioning nuclear power plants

  Assessment of the safety status of close-border nuclear installations

  06/01/2020

  The UMBW is supported by a technical assessment and evaluation of documents in the technical evaluation of incidents and projects as well as general safety issues concerning close-border nuclear facilities in neighbouring countries.

• Plant safety

  Safety-relevant ageing mechanisms of the reactor pressure vessel by the example of the Beznau 1 nuclear power plant

  05/27/2020

  The Öko-Institut is conducting a literature review on aging mechanisms for reactor pressure vessels in connection with the safety case for the Beznau 1 nuclear power plant.

• Final storage

  Expert services in connection with the site recommendation of BGZ Gesellschaft für Zwischenlagerung mbH for a Konrad central staging facility

  10/17/2019

  On behalf of the BMU, the statement on the derivation of the site recommendation for the "Zentrales Bereitstellungslager Konrad" (ZBL) evaluates the approach selected by the BGZ, the selected requirements for site selection and evaluation, and the derivation of the site recommendation. The assessme

• Radiation protection

  Development of indicators in a catalogue of criteria and implementation of an initial survey to determine the current situation for the evaluation of the national radon action plan.

  08/01/2019

  Radon protection in the Radiation Protection Act has been in force since the end of last year. The law defines a reference value for the radon activity concentration indoors and at workplaces. The law stipulates that the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety,

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  Contributions of marine ecosystems to CO2 storage and biodiversity

  Press releases 07/15/2024

  Seagrass meadows, mangrove forests and salt marshes can absorb and store up to 216 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere worldwide every year. Over centuries to millennia, they form an enormous carbon store of up to 22,000 million tonnes of carbon in marine sediments. At the same time, they make an important contribution to the preservation of biodiversity in the oceans and on the coasts, help to protect against storm surges and coastal defences and thereby contribute to the nutrition and safety of millions of people. This is shown in a research report by Oeko-Institut and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research and commissioned by the German Environment Agency. The report examines the importance of coastal ecosystems for global climate protection.

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  “I kinda wanted to land the plane”

  Blog 07/05/2024

  Donna Lee had a clear plan for her retirement. After many years in the US Department of State, frequent travel, living and working out of a suitcase, a fulfilling but exhausting career, she wanted to “land the plane”, as she herself says. To improve the quality of the voluntary carbon market Donna Lee and partner Duncan van Bergen set up Calyx Global.