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  ...

Short Information about the Konrad repository The Konrad repository is located in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony. It is the first repository licensed under nuclear law in Germany, with a licence for the  ...

Short information about the Asse II mine The Asse II mine is located in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony. From 1967 to 1978, around 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level  ...

Current inventory Storage facilities and facilities commissioned by the state collection points currently hold over 130,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste. The volume of radioactive waste will  ...

News The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is responsible for the safe disposal of radioactive waste deep underground in Germany. This includes not only low- and intermediate-level radioactive  ...

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Actors and responsibilities Article 73(1) of the German Constitution, the Basic Law, gives the Federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive substances.  ...

To find out whether an area in Germany is a sub-area or is not a candidate repository site, please use the postcode or location search (magnifying glass symbol) at the top right of our interactive  ...

Planning-scientific weighing criteria If an underground inspection is not sufficient alone, further checks must be carried out above ground. The planning-scientific weighing criteria (planWK) are an  ...

History of the search for repositories The search for a repository for radioactive waste, especially heat-generating waste, is not new. The following selected milestones provide an overview of the  ...