Main topic: Salt water in the Asse mine Water has been seeping into the Asse II mine for decades, resulting in a risk of what is known as “drowning”. Miners use this term to describe a situation in  ...

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  ...

Main topic: The Konrad repository – a multigenerational project Twenty years ago, the State of Lower Saxony issued a licence for the construction of the Konrad repository. This decision was not  ...

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 topics in relation to the Konrad repository The main topics deal with individual aspects of the Konrad repository in greater detail. Konrad repository on the home straight Construction of the  ...

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  ...

The Managing Board The BGE is represented by three managing directors. Iris Graffunder Iris Graffunder – Chair of the Managing Board Iris Graffunder has been Chair of the Managing Board of the BGE  ...

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 - 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  ...

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  ...