Welcome to the BGE! Welcome to the homepage of the BGE, the federal company for radioactive waste disposal. On our website we publish our latest press releases and inform interested citizens and  ...
ANNUAL REPORT An nu al Re po rt 2 02 1 1A N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 2 1 Dear Readers, The coronavirus pandemic has challenged BGE for another financial year. Fortunately, almost all those affected  ...
Actors and tasks in relation to the Morsleben repository Article 73(1) of the Basic Law gives the federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive  ...
Decommissioning of the Morsleben repository The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) wants to decommission the Morsleben repository with the emplaced waste left in place. An application to carry  ...
Radioactive waste in the Morsleben repository During emplacement operations, almost 37,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste were placed in final disposal. Around 60% of  ...
History of the Morsleben repository The Morsleben repository had a turbulent history prior to becoming the GDR’s central repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste in 1971. On  ...
Asse II mine Located in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, the Asse II mine stores 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste deep underground. This is not a safe  ...
Actors and tasks The Basic Law gives the federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive substances. This stipulation is found in Article 73(1). The  ...
Preservation of a section as a place of remembrance The wall built around the Gorleben mine site will be demolished. A section of the wall will be preserved as a place of remembrance on the  ...