Disposal Technology and Special-purpose Machines
Based on our many years of experience in the fields of disposal and repository technology, we are able to solve challenging tasks in the planning and realisation of special-purpose vehicles, special equipment, and monitoring or supply facilities. Our expertise covers all relevant systems and components of a repository.
Our expertise in the field of repository technology includes:
- Based on the repository design and the design requirements, we develop the systems and components of the necessary repository technology until they are ready for licensing.
- We demonstrate their technical feasibility and compliance with all safety requirements for their subsequent application in repository operations.
- We adapt mining or civil engineering components, such as shaft hoisting equipment as well as wheel-driven and rail-bound vehicles, to the special requirements of a repository.
- We also adapt control, supply, electrical, and monitoring systems accordingly.
- We develop new technical solutions for special disposal tasks; e.g., the emplacement of radioactive waste containers or the sealing of emplacement drifts and boreholes, and refine them until they are ready for licensing.
- We are also involved in the development of containers for the transport, interim storage, and disposal of radioactive materials.
References
- KOREKT: Development of technical concepts for the retrieval of repository containers containing heat-generating radioactive waste and spent fuel elements from a high-level radioactive waste repository in crystalline rock (2018 - 2022)
- TREND: Further development of concepts for the transport and storage technology of final disposal containers (2019 - 2021)
- KoBra: Requirements and concepts for containers for the disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste and spent fuel elements in rock salt, claystone, and crystalline rock (2017 - 2020)
- ERNESTA: Development of technical concepts for the retrieval of repository containers with heat-generating radioactive waste and spent fuel elements from repositories in salt and claystone formations (2014 - 2018)
- KONEKD: Development of a technical concept for a generic repository for heat-generating waste and spent fuel elements in crystalline rock in Germany (2016 - 2017)
- URSEL: Site specific evaluation of safety issues for high-level waste disposal in crystalline rocks (2010 - 2016)
- SULa: Safety studies on the shaft transport of heavy loads with a payload of up to 175 tons (2013 - 2013)
- DENKMAL, Phase 1: Optimization of direct disposal through canister emplacement in boreholes, feasibility study, and design and concept planning (2004 - 2009)
- Großbohrlöchern: Studies on disposal in large boreholes (2002 - 2003)
