Pressemitteilung 09/25 - Endlagersuche Crystalline rock must fulfil numerous requirements in order to be suitable as a host rock for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste. How  ...

Press release 08/25 - BGE On 30 June 2025, the BGE submitted the first licence application pursuant to section 9 of the Atomic Energy Act (AtG) for the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse II  ...

press release 07/25 - BGE Jürgen Korth takes over as Technical Managing Director of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) on 1 July 2025. The 59-year-old was most recently Director of  ...

Press release No. 16/25 - BGE On 3 November 2025, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is publishing an updated work status regarding the search for a site for a repository for high-level  ...

Pressemitteilung Nr. 11/25 - Asse At the start of August, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) achieved a key step in its preparations for the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse  ...

Press release No. 13/25 - BGE BGE TECHNOLOGY GmbH (BGE TEC) is celebrating its 25th birthday. This engineering subsidiary of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) was founded in 2000 under the  ...

Asse Work has started on exploratory boreholes R 10 and R 11. The drilling sites for the planned boreholes are currently being prepared so that the drilling rig can be set up safely. First, the  ...

Press release No. 12/25 - repository search A joint press release by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management and the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung In autumn 2025, the  ...

Pressemitteilung Nr. 06/25 - BGE Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter has been appointed to the Supervisory Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), and on 24 June 2025, the Supervisory Board  ...

Radioactive waste in the Morsleben repository During emplacement operations, almost 37,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste were placed in final disposal. Around 60% of  ...