Asse Work has started on exploratory boreholes R 10 and R 11. The drilling sites for the planned boreholes are currently being prepared so that the drilling rig can be set up safely. First, the  ...

Press release No. 12/25 - repository search A joint press release by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management and the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung In autumn 2025, the  ...

Pressemitteilung Nr. 06/25 - BGE Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), and on 24 June 2025, the Supervisory Board  ...

Questions and answers regarding the Konrad repository and the evaluation What is the Konrad repository? Since April 2017, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has been responsible for the  ...

Questions and answers The Konrad mine is the first repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste to be licensed in Germany in accordance with the Atomic Energy Act. Project Konrad is a  ...

Actors and tasks in relation to the Konrad repository Article 73(1) of the Basic Law gives the federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive substances.  ...

Imprint Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) Eschenstraße 55 31224 Peine Phone: +49 5171 43-0 Fax: +49 5171 43-1218 Email: poststelle(at)bge.de The Management Board: Iris Graffunder, Marlis  ...

Radioactive waste for the Konrad repository The Konrad repository is licensed for a volume of 303,000 cubic metres of packaged low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (according to the licence:  ...

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  ...

When will Konrad be finished? A report by an expert body in 2017 points to the first half of 2027 as the completion date, taking account of the uncertainties that can be assessed. In particular,  ...