10 Feb COWI Assists with Interim Storage Facility Investigations
Danish Decommissioning has entered into a contract with COWI A/S as part of the preparatory work for a political decision regarding the future of radioactive waste.
20 Oct From Waste to Ash
At Danish Decommissioning, we are constantly working to minimize the volume of waste that needs to be disposed of in the future. A new initiative is an agreement with the highly specialized Swedish company Studsvik concerning the incineration of the combustible portion of the waste.
20 Mar Response to Öko-Institut and NOAH
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (SUM) has, in collaboration with DD and GEUS, answered questions from the German researcher Gerhard Schmidt of Öko-Institut.
11 Mar Interim Storage Facility Solution to be Investigated
The political parties have today decided that we should proceed with the possibility of setting up an intermediate storage facility.
05 Mar Dialogue Meeting Prior to Conference on Radioactive Waste
Today, DR P4 Bornholm reports that Danish Decommissioning will not discuss technical aspects of nuclear waste publicly. For the record, we must point out that this is incorrect.
02 Mar Members of Parliament visited DD
On February 27, Danish Decommissioning received a visit from the Danish Parliament. Twelve politicians, members of the Health and Prevention Committee and the Environment Committee respectively, visited DD to learn about Denmark's radioactive waste. They were given a tour of the interim storage facilities for Denmark's radioactive waste.
02 Mar Basis for decision-making for intermediate storage facility
As a follow-up to the November 2012 agreement between the Minister for Health and Prevention and the political parties regarding the assessment of the interim storage facility option, a decision basis has been prepared.
08 Jan DD's specific waste is intermediate-level radioactive
Danish Decommissioning is dismantling experimental reactors and other nuclear installations on Risø. Part of our task is to deal with radioactive waste, and a small part of the total is "special waste".
03 Jul Authorization for decision-making on intermediate storage
Danish Decommissioning has been granted DKK 1.1 million to prepare a decision basis for the Danish Parliament regarding the establishment of a Danish interim storage facility for low and intermediate-level waste. This will be done in collaboration with GEUS and the Danish Institute for Radiation Protection (SIS).
01 Feb Results of area studies
GEUS has now submitted the results of the area studies conducted in five municipalities, with the aim of identifying the most suitable location for the storage of radioactive waste.