Asse II mine Located in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, the Asse II mine stores 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste deep underground. This is not a safe  ...
The company The BGE is mandated by the Federal government to perform tasks in the disposal of radioactive waste. The federally-owned company was founded for this purpose in July 2016. The new company  ...
Planning-scientific weighing criteria If an underground inspection is not sufficient alone, further checks must be carried out above ground. The planning-scientific weighing criteria (planWK) are an  ...
Press release No. 02/26 - Repository search The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) will publish the next work statuses from the representative preliminary safety analyses (rvSU) in autumn 2026,  ...
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  ...