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Planning, delivery and supervision of nuclear projects — including decommissioning and dismantling. With the licences that must be in place for it.
Approval
Anyone who wants to work in a controlled area needs more than expertise: a licence, a passed reliability check and complete documentation.
COPLA Burg GmbH has worked in nuclear engineering for decades and holds the licence under § 25 of the Radiation Protection Act for work in other operators' radiation protection areas. On top of that come the reliability check under § 12b of the Atomic Energy Act and the sabotage protection measures. Without those three building blocks nobody enters a controlled area — however well they can weld.
Power generation in Germany has ended; the work has not. Decommissioning and dismantling tie up staff for years — people who are equally at home with radiation protection, cutting technology and documentation. That is where our focus lies today. Our people have worked at the Grohnde, Lingen and Nord nuclear power plants, among others.
15 positions are currently open in the nuclear division — permanent contracts, pay at the end of the month and training we pay for.
The film shows how a nuclear assignment runs — from the access check through transport to interim storage.
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Licence under § 25 StrlSchG and reliability check under § 12b AtG.
Planning, supervision, decommissioning and dismantling — supervised and documented.
Cleared means released: first the proof, then the part.
A tented enclosure under negative pressure, so nothing escapes.
The vessel is cut into segments, remotely or by hand.
Declare the package, document it, release it.
In nuclear facilities it is not the quote that decides but the licence: access, expertise, measurement, documentation.
Before the work comes the licence, after the work the proof. In between lies what the specialist was brought in for.
Reliability check, expertise, instruction, dosimetry — only then does the airlock open.
Dismantling, cutting, decontamination — planned by trade, documented by component.
Measure, assess, record. Without release, no package leaves the controlled area.
The section sounds like a formality. In fact it decides whether a contractor may send its people into your plant at all.
A contractor deploying staff in someone else's radiation protection areas needs an official licence to do so. It is not granted across the board: it requires expertise in radiation protection, a suitable organisation and the reliability of those responsible. COPLA Burg GmbH holds this licence — the entry ticket without which no quote is worth anything.
Every person who is to be granted access to a nuclear facility is checked for reliability by the competent authority. The procedure needs lead time and cannot be speeded up. That is why, with every nuclear enquiry, we ask first for the start date and plan backwards — not the other way round.
Material leaving a nuclear facility has to be clearance-measured and documented. During dismantling this evidence is not an appendix but a work package in its own right — and one of the reasons we also have physicists and documentation specialists on our books.
Further reading: What contractors specifically have to prepare is set out in our guide § 25 StrlSchG: what the licence means for contractorsThe full list of approvals can be found under Certificates & approvals.
The route into a controlled area is longer than into a chemical plant. But it can be planned — if you start early enough.
Plant, activity, area, dose relevance and time window. From that follows which proof is needed.
We propose specialists with matching experience and radiation protection expertise already in place.
The check under § 12b AtG is set in motion. Its duration determines the earliest possible start date.
Radiation protection instruction, occupational health checks, plant-specific training, dosimetry.
Work under your supervision; dose records, activity records and release documents run alongside.
On top of the usual factors, three particulars apply here:
Reliability checks, expertise and plant-specific training are up-front work that falls due before day one.
Work in the controlled area needs more equipment, more monitoring and shorter time on site per person.
Evidence and clearance measurement are work packages in their own right, not an add-on.
Important for your planning: The limiting factor is almost never the price but the lead time of the official check. Ask earlier than you are used to from other trades.
In nuclear work, weeks lie between the go-ahead and the first working day: reliability check, radiation protection expertise, occupational health checks, instruction on site.
Planning that lead time only once the need is there means losing it twice over. Our people bring the proof with them — and we keep it valid.
Yes. The basis is our licence under § 25 of the Radiation Protection Act for work in other operators' radiation protection areas, together with reliability checks and sabotage protection measures. Without that licence the assignment would be legally impossible, whatever the person's qualifications.
The duration is set by the competent authority, not by us. Allow several weeks and report your needs correspondingly early. Where possible we propose specialists whose check is already in place and still valid.
Yes, that is our main focus in nuclear work today. We supply staff for demolition, decontamination, cutting and packaging as well as for dismantling engineering, system labelling and repository documentation.
Responsibility for radiation protection at the plant stays with the operator. We provide the expertise and the required proof on the contractor's side and work under the supervision of your radiation protection officer.
Depending on the task, the KTA rules, the Atomic Energy Act and the Radiation Protection Ordinance — for example § 58 StrlSchV for releasing material from radiation protection areas. Which rules apply in detail is set by your plant.
Yes. Power plant construction and energy technology are a reference area in their own right — from the new-build plants at Lippendorf, Boxberg and Jänschwalde through BoA Neurath to the Walsum combined heat and power plant. More on that under Industrial Services.
Tell us the plant, the task and the date you want. We work the lead times back and tell you honestly whether the date will hold.
