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  ...

Konrad information centre The Konrad information centre is the BGE’s information centre for the Konrad repository. It is centrally and conveniently located in the pedestrian area of  ...

Representative preliminary safety analyses The representative preliminary safety analyses are the first safety assessments for a repository for high-level radioactive waste in the ongoing site  ...

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  ...

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