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13.06.2023 - The Konrad repository is on the home straight, but there are still a number of hurdles to overcome.

Construction work on the Konrad repository has reached an advanced stage, and all new buildings on the Konrad 1 site have now been built. Konrad 1 is the conventional part of the repository, through ...

10.08.2023 - Iris Graffunder and Marlis Koop become new managing directors of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE).

On Wednesday, 9 August 2023, the Supervisory Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) appointed Iris Graffunder and Marlis Koop as new managing directors from 1 January 2024 onwards. ...

19.12.2023 - Attention teachers in grades 9 to 13: The BGE is launching a nationwide school competition on the topic of final storage with free teaching materials and webinars.

Although many people consider the subject of nuclear energy closed since the last German nuclear power plants went offline in spring 2023, the opposite is actually the case. The remnants of this era ...

09.04.2024 - The amount of salt water collected in the Asse II mine has continued to decrease. The BGE has made an application to the State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology to upgrade the main collection point.

As early as 2023, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) observed irregularities in the collection of non-radioactive salt water volumes entering the facility. It then installed additional pump ...

31.03.2023 - The Kuhlager site is fundamentally suitable

In the view of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), the question as to whether the subsoil in the “Kuhlager” is fundamentally suitable for the construction of a waste treatment plant and an ...

08.04.2024 - The temperature of the containers should not exceed 150°C in rock salt or 100°C in the case of claystone and crystalline rock

High-level radioactive waste generates heat due to the high level of radiation energy. There are limits to the level that this heat is permitted to reach in a repository. The Bundesgesellschaft für ...

18.12.2023 - A new shaft has to be built to recover the radioactive waste. The drilling serves to confirm the suitability of the site and to lay the foundation for planning.

On Wednesday, 18 October 2023, drilling work will commence on the Remlingen 18 exploratory borehole. The area to the east of the Asse II mine is fundamentally suitable as a site for the Asse 5 shaft, ...

15.08.2023 - BGE awards contract for renaturation of salt heap and backfilling of mine cavities.

The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) has taken the first key step towards the closure of the Gorleben mine by awarding a contract to backfill the cavities using salt stored at the ...

13.12.2023 - Following the discontinuation of the logistics centre project, the task is now to draw up decentralised delivery concepts in greater detail.

On Tuesday, 12 December 2023, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) abandoned plans for a Konrad logistics centre. The decision has placed even greater focus on decentralised delivery ...

25.03.2024 - Dr Jan-Niclas Gesenhues has led the Supervisory Board since March 2024

On 12 March 2024, Dr Jan-Niclas Gesenhues took over as Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE). The Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for ...

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