Consultation Results

All results and consultations of RSK are listed here. 

Further information on the handling of the consultation results of the RSK by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) are given in Chapter I. Legal framework - 3. Nuclear rules and regulations - b) Recommendations and statements of the RSK, ESK, SSK (on page 8) of the Manual on cooperation between the Federation and the Länder in atomic law (in German).

 

>> Summary reports of the meetings.

The preparation of the summary reports was discontinued with the 536th meeting and replaced by the publication of the agendas.

>> Agendas (from June 2023)

 

Consultation Results

27.03.2019 STATEMENT Requirements in connection with passive spent fuel pool cooling (with note from the 547th RSK meeting)

Note:

With regard to the requirements for spent fuel pool cooling, additional requirements arise from the RSK recommendation “Increasing the reliability of measures to prevent drop of spent fuel transport and storage casks in nuclear power plants” (available in German only) from the 546th RSK meeting on 30 April 2025.

06.02.2019 STATEMENT Aspects of quality assurance with regard to surveillance testing and maintenance measures as well as the use of external personnel
23.05.2018 STATEMENT Assessment of the safety cases for the reactor pressure vessels of the Belgian nuclear power plants Doel-3/Tihange-2
06.12.2017 STATEMENT RSK summary statement on man-made hazards, aircraft crash - Reference report: definition of load assumptions and assessment of Konvoi plants
06.09.2017 STATEMENT Assessment of the implementation of RSK recommendations in response to Fukushima
22.03.2017 STATEMENT Boundary conditions for furnishing proof of the control of design basis accidents
22.03.2017 STATEMENT Assessment of the implementation of the recommendations of the RSK resulting from the safety review of German research reactors
03.11.2016 STATEMENT Monitoring of know-how and motivation loss and appropriate measures for strengthening motivation and maintaining know-how in the German nuclear energy industry
03.11.2016 STATEMENT Lightning with parameters exceeding the standardised lightning current parameters
18.05.2016 STATEMENT Damage to fuel assembly alignment pins and core components
13.04.2016 Preliminary BRIEF ASSESSMENT Preliminary brief assessment of the safety cases for the reactor pressure vessels of the Belgian nuclear power plants Doel-3 / Tihange-2
10.02.2016 STATEMENT Aspects of the determination of the site-specific design basis flood
09.12.2015 RECOMMENDATION Requirements with respect to spent fuel pool cooling
24.06.2015 RECOMMENDATION Demonstration of residual ductility/residual strength using an ECR limit curve
15.04.2015 RECOMMENDATION Hydrogen release from the containment
15.04.2015 STATEMENT Requirements for LOCA analyses using statistical methods
18.03.2015 STATEMENT Fuel assembly deformation in German pressurised water reactors (PWRs)
14.01.2015 STATEMENT Section-wide unavailabilities due to electrical coupling between redundant sections of the emergency power system of German nuclear power plants
11.12.2014 STATEMENT Formation and effects of an unborated water plug during steam generator tube rupture

Note:

STATEMENT of the RSK Committee on PLANT AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (AST)

06.11.2014 RECOMMENDATION Guideline for the performance of integrated event analyses ("Root Cause Analysis")