BGE - 15.08.2023

First step towards closing the Gorleben mine

BGE awards contract for renaturation of salt heap and backfilling of mine cavities.

BGE - 10.08.2023

BGE Management Board completed with two experienced experts

Iris Graffunder and Marlis Koop become new managing directors of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE).

Luftbild der Schachtanlage Konrad 1
Endlager Konrad - 13.06.2023

Completion of Konrad repository delayed

The Konrad repository is on the home straight, but there are still a number of hurdles to overcome.

Map that shows the reasearch region
Endlagersuche - 12.06.2023

“GeoMetEr” research project: BGE designates second research region

Plans for 2D seismic survey and measurements from the air.

Asse - 05.05.2023

New exploratory borehole in the Asse mine

Emplacement chamber 12 to be investigated from May onwards

Eine grüne Wiese, am Horizont sind ein paar Bäume zu sehen
Asse - 31.03.2023

BGE publishes geotechnical report for the Asse mine

The Kuhlager site is fundamentally suitable

Foto eines winterlichen Sonnenaufgangs, fotografiert durch die Speichen eines großen Metallrads.
Asse - 14.03.2023

BGE presents a report on the development of a concept for characterising waste from the Asse mine

The BGE is publishing the final report on the “Development of a concept for characterising the radioactive waste to be retrieved from the Asse II mine”.

03.03.2023

“GeoMetEr” research project begins

The research project is being launched in mid-March 2023 in collaboration with a project group led by the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology.

Eine stilisierte Lupe, darin eine Uhr
19.12.2022

Press release No. 13/22: BGE hopes to submit report on siting regions in 2027 at the latest

In Step 2 of Phase I of the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste in Germany, the task of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is to reduce 90 sub-areas to a small number of siting regions for surface exploration

Asse - 18.11.2022

Press Release No. 12/22 – BGE applies for temporary closure of district road

The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is requesting the temporary closure of the district road K 513 between Remlingen and Groß Vahlberg for the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse mine.