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  ...

Research Research and development are important components for the successful implementation of the search for a repository site and the development of repository concepts for heat-generating  ...

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  ...

Asse II mine Located in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, the Asse II mine stores 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste deep underground. This is not a safe  ...

BGE – the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is a Federally-owned company that is responsible, on behalf of the Federal government, for the  ...

International collaboration by the BGE The goals of international collaboration regarding the disposal of radioactive waste are to learn from one another, to closely monitor the state of the art of  ...

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  ...

Our sites The headquarters of the BGE is in Peine. There are other locations in Salzgitter and Berlin (liaison office). Headquarters Peine Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH Eschenstraße 55 31224  ...

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