STATUS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF FINAL DISPOSAL CASKS AND PROSPECTS IN GERMANY

In Germany, progress has been made in been development of a cask syste m for final disposal of spent fuel. The requirements for a final dispo sal cask and the planning requirements far a final repository are disc ussed, and a cask system is described that meats these requirements. B esides the description of tile cask system and the planned inventory, the results of the shielding, criticality, and thermal calculations ar e described, as well as the results of the drop tests that have been p erformed with the cask. As a further development, a consolidated spent -fuel canister is described.