Press release No. 18/25 - Asse On 19 November 2025, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) used a camera to look into emplacement chamber 8a at the 511-metre level for the first time in several  ...

Tasks BGE is looking for a site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste that will guarantee the best possible safety for one million years and operates the Konrad and Morsleben final  ...

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Actors and tasks The Basic Law gives the federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive substances. This stipulation is found in Article 73(1). The  ...

Standortauswahl In Step 2 of Phase I of the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste in Germany, the task of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is to reduce 90 sub-areas to  ...

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  ...

Press release No. 15/25 - BGE The BGE is currently managing to collect larger quantities of salt water in the vicinity of the former main collection point at the 658-metre level. At present, this  ...

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  ...

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  ...

Press Release Nr. 04/2026 - Asse In 2020, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) presented the retrieval plan – an initial planning concept that outlined how the numerous different steps  ...