Aspects on decommissioning of the Greifswald nuclear power plant

The most important part of the nuclear facilities in the former German Democratic Republic is situated at Greifswald near the Baltic Sea. Shortly after reunification of the Germany states, a decision was taken to decommission all Russian pressurised water reactors. The dismantling of them will be the biggest decommissioning project of series reactors world-wide. The low level of radioactive contamination, especially in the primary circuit, makes recycling of much material after decontamination possible.