Announcement – Konrad repository 4 May 2017: Landmark of Konrad mine scaffolded The listed winding tower, being the symbol of the Konrad mine beyond the city limits of Salzgitter, will be scaffolded  ...

Licensing of the Konrad repository Following the initial idea of using the Konrad mine as a repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, it was a long time before implementation  ...

Licensing of the Konrad repository The Konrad repository in Salzgitter was licensed as part of a procedure that took around 20 years to complete. This is the first time that such a comprehensive  ...

Press release No. 09/24 - Repository search At the 3rd Forum on the Search for a Final Repository (Forum Endlagersuche) on 22 and 23 November 2024, 247 participants came together in Würzburg to  ...

Main topic: Completion of the Konrad repository Project Konrad is a highly complex and extensive construction project. Nuclear law imposes stringent safety requirements and serves as the benchmark  ...

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  ...

Announcement 20 May 2017: Man haulage currently not possible at Asse 2 shaft A precautionary control of the rope at the Asse II mine 's main shaft – shaft 2 -, has shown today that the rope's  ...

Announcement - Asse II mine 23 November 2017: Values measured in the evacuated inflow waters. Roughly 12.5 cubic metres of saline influent waters are collected in the Asse II mine every day. The  ...

Announcement - Asse II mine 21 July 2017: Measurement values of evacuated inflow waters for the first six months of 2017 Currently, around 12.5 cubic metres of inflow waters containing salt are  ...

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  ...