Federal authorities and other organisations BMUV: Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protecion (external link) BASE: Federal Office for the Safety o
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Laws/ordinances Pursuant to Article 70 of the German constitution (Grundgesetz – GG, the Basic Law), the Länder are responsible for mounting an immediate emergency response through disaster control. T
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Compendium of Measures A Compendium of Measures to Reduce Radiation Exposure Following Events with not Insignificant Radiological Consequences (Catalogue of Countermeasures) has been produced to assis
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Alert criteria Criteria determining when the operators of nuclear facilities should alert the disaster control authority (alert criteria) have been developed in order to ensure that these authorities
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Basic Radiological Principles The Basic Radiological Principles for Decisions on Measures for the Protection of the Population against Accidental Releases of Radionuclides are the basis for the Recomm
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Principles of radiation protection Ionising radiation may produce deterministic and stochastic effects. Deterministic effects only occur once a threshold of exposure (i.e. a specific dose) has been ex
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Land authorities and other organisations Federal states Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector Baden-Württemberg (external link) Ministry of the Interi
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Pressurised water reactor (PWR) A pressurised water reactor plant has two separate circulation systems for the turbine and the reactor: the primary and secondary coolant circuits. The primary system c
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Decommissioning strategies There are two main strategies for decommissioning: immediate dismantling or deferred dismantling after safe enclosure. The German Atomic Energy Act (AtG) originally consider
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Boiling water reactor (BWR) Opens bigger view Schematic layout of a boiling water reactor (click to enlarge) (illustration: GRS) Boiling water reactors have a closed water-steam cycle. In the cooling
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