The nuclear reactor remote monitoring system of the federal state of Baden- Wuerttemberg
(KFUe BW) is realized according to the renewed “recommendations for remote monitoring of
nuclear power plants” (BMU, 2005a). The spectrum of the system covers both, pursuit of
operational procedures, and incidents or accidents. The KFUe BW provides a measurement
network and information system for operational parameters at the plant sites as well as
radiological and meteorological measurements in their vicinity. For the Ministry, it
preferentially serves as an instrument of nuclear supervision. This paper gives a brief
survey of the system architecture and concentrates on the role of the KFUe with respect to
the determination and evaluation of the radiological situation in the range of off-site
emergency management.