Blog post by Dagmer Dehmer 15 August 2017: Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, promises support for the BGE No, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Ms. Barbara Hendricks  ...
Background information In the Federal Republic of Germany, large quantities of radioactive waste with negligible heat generation arise particularly from the operation and dismantling of nuclear power  ...
Pressemitteilung 10/24 - Gorleben At the end of November 2024, the green light was given for the backfilling of the Gorleben mine. Over the next three years, the galleries and shafts are to be  ...
Press release No. 02/24 - Repository Search High-level radioactive waste generates heat due to the high level of radiation energy. There are limits to the level that this heat is permitted to reach  ...
Press Release No. 03/23 – Asse In the view of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE), the question as to whether the subsoil in the “Kuhlager” is fundamentally suitable for the construction of  ...
Press Release No. 02/23 – Asse The BGE is publishing the final report on the “Development of a concept for characterising the radioactive waste to be retrieved from the Asse II mine” . This report  ...
Announcement - site selection 29 June 2017: BGE on the implementation of final repository search On 28 June 2017, Ursula Heinen-Esser, Chair of BGE Management reported to the Environmental Committee  ...