The Management Board The BGE is represented by three managing directors. Iris Graffunder Iris Graffunder – Chair of the Management Board Iris Graffunder has been Chair of the Management Board of the  ...

Research Research and development are important components for the successful implementation of the search for a repository site and the development of repository concepts for heat-generating  ...

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  ...

Stakeholders and tasks A large number of stakeholders are involved in the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste. At this point, we would like to introduce the most important  ...

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  ...

The Gorleben mine The Gorleben salt dome is located in the municipality of Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of north-east Lower Saxony. East of the River Elbe, the dome continues as the  ...

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  ...

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  ...

Konrad repository At the Konrad mine in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, work is underway on the construction of Germany’s first repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste to be licensed  ...

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.  ...