Safety and radiation protection
To exclude a hazard to the staff, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has taken numerous safety precautions. Radiation protection areas, dosimetrical monitoring, and contamination controls are to protect the staff.
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The safe operation of a nuclear facility includes taking measures which prevent events in the case of which neither the facility’s operation can continue nor can it be decommissioned methodically or which – if this is not possible – reduce the effects of such events. For this purpose, the Federal Office for Radiation Protection has now submitted a concept for the first time.
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Today’s and former staff of the Asse mine are to get clear: In an “Asse Health Monitoring” the Federal Office for Radiation Protection records what exposure level the Asse staff were and are exposed to during their work in the mine. With this monitoring the Office wants to find out whether cancer contracted by former staff members is associated with their occupational radiation exposure.
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About 12,000 litres of saline solutions are collected in the Asse II mine daily. In order to keep the influent saline solution taken to the Mariaglück mine harmless, the locations where the solution is collected and the reservoirs on the 658-m level and the 490-m level are covered and provided with fresh air to keep the taking up of tritium through the mine air as low as possible. Before they are taken away, the influent saline solutions are cleared. About 12,000 litres of saline solutions are collected in the Asse II mine daily. In order to keep the influent saline solution taken to the Mariaglück mine harmless, the locations where the solution is collected and theSaline solutions collected below the 658-m remain underground.
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