Morsleben repository At the Morsleben repository, there are almost 37,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste stored at a depth of some 480 metres. Morsleben is the first  ...

Gorleben Joint press release from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) with the Lower Saxony Ministry for Environment, Energy, Construction and  ...

Asse The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has taken another step towards the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse II mine. On 20 December 2021, it contracted out the draft and  ...

International collaboration The goals of international collaboration regarding the disposal of radioactive waste are to learn from one another, to closely monitor the state of the art of science and  ...

Repository search In Germany, discussions about the “repository search” relate to the process of selecting a repository site for high-level radioactive waste. On this page : Video: Repository search  ...

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Main topics in relation to the Asse II mine The main topics deal with individual aspects of the Asse II mine in greater detail. 3D seismic In 2019 and 2020, the BGE conducted 3D seismic measurements  ...

Main topic: 3D seismic survey There’s an old miners’ saying that goes “It’s dark in front of the pick,” but it’s now possible to learn more about the course of geological layers without using a pick.  ...

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  ...

Radioactive waste in the Asse II mine From 1967 to 1978, around 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste were emplaced in the mine according to information from the former  ...