Evaluation of the safety requirements for the Konrad repository, Phase 2: Independant scientific peer review

The former iron ore mine Schacht Konrad is beeing converted into a final storage for radioactive waste with negligible heat generation. The planning approval was issued in 2002.

The operator, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) mbH, is carrying out an evaluation of the safety requirements for the Konrad repository (ÜSiKo). This evaluation compares the state of the art of sience and technology at the time of the planning approval (2002) with an appropriate state of knowledge today.

Phase 1 of the ÜSiKo has identified the safety-related deviations where an up-date of the existing safety analyses is necessary. As follow-up BGE is contracting technical experts to evaluate this items.

In Addition the contractors' results will be reviewed by an independant peer review team to determine the extend to which they are complete, comprehensible and correct. Oeko-Institute represented by Stephan Kurth is member of the peer review team. The thematic focus is on MTO-Analyses. The findings of the peer review team will be summarized in a report, which is intended to be published by the BGE.