Press Release No. 04/23 – Asse From 5 May 2023, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) will continue its exploration programme at the 750-metre level in the Asse II mine. With the new  ...

Press release No. 01/24 - BGE 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  ...

Announcement 25 April 2017 – New BGE website online Welcome to the website of BGE (the federally-owned company responsible for radioactive waste disposal). The website provides basic information on  ...

Announcement – Morsleben repository 24 November 2017: NBG visits emplacement areas in the Morsleben repository On the occasion of its 11th meeting on 10 and 11 November 2017, the National Support  ...

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  ...

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  ...

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  ...

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: stability The mine cavities of the Morsleben repository are stable. This stability is of vital importance for the safety of staff working underground and ensures not only the immediate  ...