BGE, Germany’s radioactive waste management organisation, has awarded a contract to Hanover-based Ed. Züblin AG for the construction of major earthquake-proof facilities at the planned Konrad radwaste disposal facility at Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, northwest Germany.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2023 with completion scheduled for 2025.
The main facility under the contract is a building where packages of low-level waste (LLW) and intermediate-level waste (ILW) will be radiologically checked, lifted off trucks and rail carriages and prepared for transport underground through the Konrad 2 storage shaft.