PAVILION | GERMANY
There are other countries that choose differently, and in doing so it will be easier for them, in some
ways, to achieve climate neutrality. I still believe that in the long term nuclear energy isn’t a sustainable form of energy production”.
Angela Merkel, Chancellor
Big Entsorgungstechnologien Gmbh says, “Would you like to reduce your mountains of waste and save space
or reduce the handling effort? Then talk to us, we will be happy to advise you on all aspects of waste disposal, volume reduction of any kind and handling of raw materials.” It has been working in solid radwaste treatment for more than 25 years. Baling presses, waste presses, briquetting presses, as well as drum presses, can crushers and other special presses are supplied from Germany.
NUCLEAR SITES When East Germany reunited with West Germany in 1990, it had four operating VVER-440s, a fifth one under construction and a small older VVER reactor. All were shut down and are now being decommissioned. Germany brought its last nuclear power plant
into commercial operation in 1989. Six nuclear sites remain in operation as
generating plant, they are at Gundremmingen, Grohnde, Brokdorf, Isar, Emsland and Neckarwestheim. All are currently due to close by 2022 and although, as above, some parties continue to argue that should be delayed, operators’ ability to halt planned closure programmes is increasingly doubtful.
Bolhoff Group specialises in fastening technology. It is ready
to provide advice no matter what industry you are working in, whether it is shipbuilding, rail vehicle manufacturing, the electronic industry, plant engineering or mechanical engineering.
2022
The Gesellschaft für Nuklear- Service mbH (GNS) carries out
services in radioactive waste disposal and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. Despite the pandemic, last year GNS
began shipping residues from the management of German waste back to Germany. It was commissioned by German nuclear power plant operators to return residues from the reprocessing of German fuel elements. The first of three shipments of vitrified HLW from the UK to Germany was completed successfully. Six casks of the type CASTOR® HAW28M, each containing 28 canisters of HLW in the form of vitrified residues, arrived at the Federal interim storage facility at Biblis in Germany in November 2020.
Now a GNS subsidiary has been
founded in Tokyo, to manage licensing of the CASTOR® geo26JP cask in Japan. The cask can hold up to 26 PWR fuel assemblies, making it the largest available capacity for fuel assemblies from PWRs in Japan.
NUCLEAR GENERATORS At its peak, the Germany nuclear power portfolio comprised 17 power reactors. It represented 15% of installed capacity and supplied a quarter of Germany’s electricity. The utilities who still have equity in nuclear stations are RWE, E.ON, Vattenfall has equity in the following German nuclear plants and Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW).
GMH Gruppe says its steel “moves whole industries
throughout th e world”. Schmiedewerke Gröditz GmbH supplies open-die forgings and ring-rolled products to its customers around the globe and, if required, semi- or finish machined to the customer’s specification.
Germany remains committed to closing its remaining nuclear units in the short term
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