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  ...

Press Release Nr. 03/26 - Asse On 9 March, miners at the Asse II mine took an important step towards stabilising solution collection at the 658-metre level by exposing the solution flow path in  ...

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  ...

BGE Glossary on the Site Selection Procedure Last updated 08.05.2026 Geschäftszeichen: SG01102/14-2/10-2025#2 – Objekt-ID: 15077317 – Revision: 01 VDIS: SG/01102/-/-/-/C/JH/0005/01 Geschäftszeichen:  ...

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Phase I Step 2: Siting regions The aim of Step 2 of Phase I of the site selection procedure is to identify siting regions . These regions are to be explored above ground as part of the search for a  ...

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  ...

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  ...

Short Information about the Morsleben repository Morsleben repository is located in Saxony-Anhalt near the border to Lower Saxony. Around 37,000 m 3 of low and intermediate-level waste with  ...