Translation of "Entsorgungsnachweis" in English

A refund will be given upon return to our branch in Ascheberg or upon receipt of proof of disposal.

The general licence application consists of six documents: the safety report; the environmental impact report; the security report on protection from external hazards; the demonstration of disposal feasibility; the concept for decommissioning, and the report on conformity with the land-use planning.

This report describes two specific assessment cases used in the safety assessment for a proposed deep geological repository for spent fuel, high level waste and long-lived intermediate-level waste, sited in the Opalinus Clay of the Zürcher Weinland in northern Switzerland (Project Entsorgungsnachweis, NAGRA, 2002d).

In the safety assessment for Project Entsorgungsnachweis, assessment cases are divided into a number of groups, according to the issues or uncertainties that they address.

Used machine oil is disposed of as waste oil by a specialist company and we are issued with official evidence of disposal for submission to the environmental authorities.

The present study provides a comprehensive treatment of the issue of gas generation in and transport from a repository for spent fuel (SF), vitrified high-level waste (HLW) and long-lived intermediate-level waste (ILW), sited in the Opalinus Clay of the Zürcher Weinland in northern Switzerland (Project Entsorgungsnachweis).

The project "Entsorgungsnachweis" presented by Nagra to the Swiss Federal Government in December 2002 assessed the feasibility of disposal of spent fuel (SF), vitrified high level waste (HLW) from reprocessing and long-lived intermediate level waste in an Opalinus Clay repository site in Northern Switzerland.

The demonstration of feasibility of disposing of spent fuel (SF), high-level waste (HLW) and long-lived intermediate-level waste (ILW) requested by the authorities is based on the Opalinus Clay Project in the Zürcher Weinland region.

In 2006, the Federal Council decided that the feasibility of disposing of these waste categories had been demonstrated successfully, but called on the waste producers to prepare a report that systematically addresses the open questions and recommendations and shows how these will be dealt with in a timely and technically appropriate manner.

The present report is designed to provide readers with the necessary information to perform, if they so wish, independent checks of the results of the evaluation of the "assessment cases" described in the Safety Report (Nagra 2002c) for Project Entsorgungsnachweis.

The Federal Council approved the demonstration of feasibility for all waste categories, thus paving the way for radioactive waste to be stored in deep geological repositories over the long term.

A SDB for MX-80 bentonite was derived from measurements made on montmorillonite using the same methodology and compared with the values used in the Entsorgungsnachweis (Nagra 2002).

This report forms part of the series produced for the Entsorgungsnachweis Project, which also includes a geological synthesis report on the region of the Zürcher Weinland (Nagra 2002a) and a safety assessment report (Nagra 2002b).

This recording procedure comprises all relevant documents, which allow the tracking of hazardous waste, such as electronic disposal records or electronic dispatch notes.

In order to demonstrate the basic feasibility of the safe disposal of spent fuel (SF), vitrified high-level waste (HLW) and long-lived intermediate-level waste (ILW) in a deep geological repository, Nagra has submitted Project Entsorgungsnachweis (the term translates into English as “demonstration of disposal feasibility”) at the end of the year 2002.

Legislation on the operation of nuclear power stations has so far demanded proof of waste disposal either by dangerous recycling or the so-called "direct final storage".

The impurities resulting from the water purification process are vaporized and disposed of as regular or special-category waste. We can of course provide proof of disposal.

The planning of work is conditioned by the Federal Government decision in 2006 that Nagra had successfully shown in Project Entsorgungsnachweis (disposal feasibility) that safe disposal of SF/HLW/ILW in Switzerland is technically feasible.

Summary This report describes two specific assessment cases used in the safety assessment for a proposed deep geological repository for spent fuel, high level waste and long-lived intermediate-level waste, sited in the Opalinus Clay of the Zürcher Weinland in northern Switzerland (Project Entsorgungsnachweis, NAGRA, 2002d).

Hence, it was decided to compare and contrast the sorption values obtained in the manner described above with those in an already existing SDB for Opalinus Clay used in the Entsorgungsnachweis (Nagra 2002).

At the end of 2002, Nagra submitted an application for a demonstration of feasibility for a method to dispose of high-level waste based on a project in opalinus clay in Zurich Weinland (today northeast Zurich).

Although Kristallin-I and the following Project Entsorgungsnachweis 2000 will certainly not lead to immediate or even early implementation of a HLW repository, the goal of providing to the Swiss public a convincing and complete demonstration that we can, if necessary, dispose of HLW within our own borders remains a key element in our long-term waste management strategy.