Commission opinion of 12 March 1999 concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste from the decommissioning and dismantling of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty (Only the German text is authentic)
Date: 1999-03-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, environmental protection, nuclear power station, public health, radioactive effluent

C 97/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

9.4.1999

COMMISSION OPINION

of 12 March 1999

concerning the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste from the decommissioning and
dismantling of the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant located in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the
Federal Republic of Germany in accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty

(Only the German text is authentic)

(1999/C 97/07)

On 15 September 1998, the European Commission received
from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, in
accordance with Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty, general data
relating to the plan for the disposal of radioactive waste
resulting from the decommissioning and dismantling of the
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant
in Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern.

(KGR)

On the basis of
these data and clarifications subsequently
provided by the German Government, and following consul-
tation with the group of experts, the Commission has drawn
up the following opinion.

(a) The distance between the plant and the closest State border
(with the Republic of Poland) is 45 km, the nearest terri-
tories of Member States being at about 120 km (Denmark)
and 135 km (Sweden).

(b) Under normal operating conditions, the discharges of liquid
and gaseous effluentes will not cause an exposure of the
population in other Member States significant from the
health point of view.

(c) Radioactive waste arising from the dismantling operations
will be stored or disposed of in licensed sites in Germany
(the ZLN interim storage facility on the same site and the
deep geological repository in Morsleben); non-radioactive
solid waste or residual materials and materials which are
released from regulatory control subject to compliance with
clearance levels will be released for disposal as conventional

waste or for reuse or recycling, in all cases complying with
the criteria laid down in the Basic Safety Standards
(Directive 96/29/Euratom); other materials will be stored
for radioactive decay or used or recycled in nuclear instal-
lations in Germany.

(d) In the event of unplanned discharges of radioactive waste
which may follow an accident of the type and magnitude
considered in the general data,
the doses likely to be
received by the population in other Member States would
not be significant from the health point of view.

(e) The general data do not contain information with regard to
a programme for radioactivity monitoring in the marine
environment but it is understood that such monitoring is
carried out in the Baltic Sea; the Commission recommends
that this be part of the statutory federal requirements and
that the results of such monitoring be made available to the
Commission,
to neighbouring Member States and to
Poland.

the opinion that

the Commission is of

the
In conclusion,
the plan for the disposal of radioactive
implementation of
the
waste from the decommissioning and dismantling of
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant, both in normal operation
and in the event of an accident of the type and magnitude
considered in the general data,
is not liable to result in the
radioactive contamination, significant from the point of view of
health, of the water, soil or airspace of another Member State.