Announcement 02. June 2017: Infomobil tour 2017 – interim balance Announcement 2 June 2017: Infomobil tour 2017 – interim balance The tour of the BGE's infomobil goes into halftime break. From 10 May  ...

Announcement 3 May 2017 – Seasonal start of the BGE infomobil on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 On Wednesday, 10 May 2017, the BGE starts this year's infomobil season. With our infomobil we visit the local  ...

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  ...

Treatment, packaging and storage The handling of radioactive materials is strictly regulated in Germany. Wherever radioactive waste arises, it must be collected, sorted and professionally packaged.  ...

Types of waste and how they are generated Radioactive materials are distinguished between low-, intermediate-, and high-level radioactivity. Other factors such as the half-life for decay or the  ...

History of the Asse II mine The Asse II mine is one of three facilities constructed on the Asse mountain range in around 1900 for the purpose of salt extraction, which was discontinued in 1964. The  ...

Stakeholders and tasks A large number of stakeholders are involved in the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste. At this point, we would like to introduce the most important  ...

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  ...

Announcement - Asse II mine 2 May 2017: Stabilisation measures on the second southern driftway on the 750-m level completed The retrieval of the radioactive waste from the Asse II mine requires  ...

Main topic: Evaluation of the safety requirements for the Konrad repository The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is responsible for the construction and operation of the Konrad repository for  ...