Endlagersuche 90 sub-areas covering 54 percent of Germany’s surface area The BGE has identified 90 sub-areas with a total area of just over 240,000 km2. However, because sub-areas partially overlap,  ...

Press release No. 04/25 - Konrad The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is still operating on the assumption that emplacement in the Konrad repository will take place in the early 2030s –  ...

Press release No. 03/2025 – repository search

Pressemitteilung Nr. 10/25 - Asse When drilling exploratory boreholes below the old containment liner at the 658-metre level, the BGE has encountered a significant flow of salt water. As the  ...

Pressemitteilung 09/25 - Endlagersuche Crystalline rock must fulfil numerous requirements in order to be suitable as a host rock for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste. How  ...

Press release 08/25 - BGE On 30 June 2025, the BGE submitted the first licence application pursuant to section 9 of the Atomic Energy Act (AtG) for the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse II  ...

press release 07/25 - BGE Jürgen Korth takes over as Technical Managing Director of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) on 1 July 2025. The 59-year-old was most recently Director of  ...

Press release No. 16/25 - BGE On 3 November 2025, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is publishing an updated work status regarding the search for a site for a repository for high-level  ...

Pressemitteilung Nr. 11/25 - Asse At the start of August, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) achieved a key step in its preparations for the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse  ...

Press release No. 13/25 - BGE BGE TECHNOLOGY GmbH (BGE TEC) is celebrating its 25th birthday. This engineering subsidiary of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) was founded in 2000 under the  ...