Civilian facility including its premises, buildings and equipment, where radioactive material is produced, processed, used, handled, stored or disposed of to an extent which requires making safety considerations.

Radioactive material from the atmosphere having reached the earth in the form of smallest particles and deposited through precipitation and sedimentation of aerosols, having for instance originated in nuclear tests.

In a feasibility study it is investigated if and under which conditions a planned elaborate investigation can be successful.

The Laender execute federal laws by order of the Federal Government (Bundesauftragsverwaltung, federal executive administration). When judging and deciding a situation differently, the Federal Government can give a federal order to the Land relating to the decision. The responsibility for the decision made according to the order is then with the Federal Government.

Federal state (or Laender) collecting depots are the interim storage facilities of the Laender erected for the waste produced in the areas of medicine, technology and research. Federal state collecting depots do not accept waste produced in connection with energy supply and reprocessing.

Nuclides generating by fission or the following radioactive decay of the nuclides that have directly generated by fission.

The mining term floor refers to a rock layer underlying a reference layer (rock layer superposing this).

Unit of rocks belonging together genetically. Was formerly only used in terms of stratigraphics.

Aqueous solutions from the geological past stored in rock layers.

Arrangement in which a multitude of fuel rods has been combined to form a construction unit with which the nuclear fuel is brought into the reactor.