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AKE: Arbeitskreis Energie

AKE 3: Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities and Final Repository

AKE 3.2: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 11. März 2019, 14:30–15:00, U A-Esch 1

Decommissioning of nuclear facilities — •Thomas Walter Tromm — KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

This presentation gives an overview on the KIT activities related to decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Our research aims are to standardize decommissioning procedures, to increase efficiency, to further minimize radioactive waste amounts, to reduce radiation exposure rates to staff, and to design autonomous and/or remote-operated decontamination techniques, which can be used in highly contaminated areas. The standardization of the entire decommissioning process allows for an automation which reduces staff deployment and thus occupational radiation exposure. Those activities take place in close cooperation with industry and with research and education partners, such as the newly founded Decommissioning Competence Cluster coordinated by KIT. KIT researchers are strongly involved in German decommissioning working groups (e.g. within German Nuclear Society (KTG), Association of German Engineers (VDI)), in the international decommissioning network (IDN) of the IAEA, and are actively engaged i.e. in the organization of international workshops. In cooperation with the European Commission, the ELINDER (European Learning Initiatives for Nuclear Decommissioning and Environmental Remediation) initiative, which started in 2016, is being carried out, while having a regular exchange with international institutions (e.g. Fukui University, Japan).