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The Gorleben Salt Dome. Suitable as Repository? (1994)

Auteur	Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Datum	1994
Classificatie	2.01.8.30/19 (DUITSLAND - GORLEBEN - ALGEMEEN)
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1. Introduction

In the sixties, the Federal Republic of Germany started to produce an essential part 
of our electric power from nuclear energy - which was both supported and accepted 
by the political parties, social groups and the general population.

In June 1961, the first German nuclear power plant, the VAK Kahl, for the first 
time supplied electric power into the electrical system. On 3 October 1990, the day 
of the German Reunification, 21 nuclear power plants in the old federal states 
covered more than a third of the power demand with a capacity of 21, 250 MWe.

The former GDR started to produce electric power from nuclear energy in 1966 
when the Rheinsberg nuclear power plant was commissioned. In October 1989, five 
nuclear power plants with 1, 800 MWe were in operation, another six with 3, 750 
MWe were under different phases of construction respectively already in trial 
operation. After intensive safety checks which showed serious safety deficits and 
partially even deficiencies in works management, the nuclear power plants were shut 
down during 1990; power plants still under construction will not be completed.

In addition to the safe operation of nuclear power plants, waste management of 
radioactive wastes is an important prerequisite for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. 
This fact was already recognized in the mid-fifties when nuclear research started in 
the Federal Republic of Germany. A memorandum of the German Atomic 
Commission dated 9 December 1957 stated: "The development work must mainly 
cover the safe removal of radioactive contamination".

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