Nuclear Engineering & Facility Safety

Judith Krohn

Senior Researcher

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Judith Krohn

Nuclear Engineering & Facility Safety
Senior Researcher
Darmstadt
Oeko-Institut Consult GmbH
+49 6151 8191-160
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Final storage

Expert advice to the district of Emsland on the results of the interim report on sub-areas, on the current status of the site selection procedure and on the method of excluding areas within the representative preliminary safety analyses in the site selection procedure for a repository

08/01/2024

In an initial expert consulting project for the district of Emsland, the Oeko-Institut primarily examined the plausibility of the BGE's assessment of the Wahn, Lathen and Börger salt domes and then supported the district in preparing a statement for the project developer and in formulating an appli
Final storage

Support with the preparation of the environmental report as part of the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Waste Management Program 2025

05/17/2024

The National Waste Management Program (NaPro) is to undergo a Strategic Environmental Assessment in 2025. In preparation, we are drawing up an explanatory document in consultation with the Federal Ministry to define the scope of the assessment, which will serve as a basis for discussion and comment
Final storage

Study on the evaluation system for the specific properties of the host rocks and configurations considered, with a view to repository safety

02/01/2024

The regulations on which the site selection procedure for a repository for high-level radioactive waste in Germany is based describe the search process for the selection of the site with the best possible safety and the criteria to be used as a basis for safety-oriented consideration. It does not
Final storage

Technical advice to the county and the city of Osnabrück on the results of the Sub-areas Interim Report and on the method of the representative preliminary safety investigation in the site selection procedure for a repository

03/01/2023

The Sub-areas Interim Report published by the BGE identifies sub-areas that were not excluded on the basis of the exclusion criteria, that meet the minimum requirements, and that were evaluated as favorable after application of the geoscientific weighing criteria and thus continue to be considered
International nuclear policy

Work on the State Reports and the Eighth Review Meeting on the Joint Convention on Nuclear Waste Management (processing period 2022- 2025).

01/01/2023

Since preparing Germany’s first national report to the “Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management” (Joint Convention), Oeko-Institute substantially contributes the respective working group of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, N
Decommissioning nuclear power plants

Analysis and technical evaluation of measures at nuclear installations in decommissioning in accordance with Section 7 of the Atomic Energy Act and during the operation of research reactors, including the consideration of public participation in decommissioning procedures in a national as well as in an international context

11/03/2022

The objective of the project is to advise the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) on scientific-technical issues arising at short notice within the scope of its responsibilities for the federal supervision of the German nuclear po

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Recent projects

Expert advice to the district of Emsland on the results of the interim report on sub-areas, on the current status of the site selection procedure and on the method of excluding areas within the representative preliminary safety analyses in the site selection procedure for a repository

Support with the preparation of the environmental report as part of the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Waste Management Program 2025

Study on the evaluation system for the specific properties of the host rocks and configurations considered, with a view to repository safety

Technical advice to the county and the city of Osnabrück on the results of the Sub-areas Interim Report and on the method of the representative preliminary safety investigation in the site selection procedure for a repository

Work on the State Reports and the Eighth Review Meeting on the Joint Convention on Nuclear Waste Management (processing period 2022- 2025).

Recent publications

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Recent projects

Expert advice to the district of Emsland on the results of the interim report on sub-areas, on the current status of the site selection procedure and on the method of excluding areas within the representative preliminary safety analyses in the site selection procedure for a repository

Support with the preparation of the environmental report as part of the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the National Waste Management Program 2025

Study on the evaluation system for the specific properties of the host rocks and configurations considered, with a view to repository safety

Technical advice to the county and the city of Osnabrück on the results of the Sub-areas Interim Report and on the method of the representative preliminary safety investigation in the site selection procedure for a repository

Work on the State Reports and the Eighth Review Meeting on the Joint Convention on Nuclear Waste Management (processing period 2022- 2025).

Recent publications

The potential of AI in dealing with geodata

Potentials and challenges of applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) in geosciences for the search of a repository forhigh-level waste in Germany

Co-design of an implementation concept for a deep geothermal energy project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Lifetime extension of ageing nuclear power plants: Entering a new era of risk

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Monitoring matters – transparency makes land sector climate action effective

Beyond artificial safety