Endlagersuche Close collaboration between the geological services of the federal states and the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) leads to greater transparency in the process of selecting a  ...

Morsleben repository At the Morsleben repository, there are almost 37,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste stored at a depth of some 480 metres. Morsleben is the first  ...

Gorleben Joint press release from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) with the Lower Saxony Ministry for Environment, Energy, Construction and  ...

Asse The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has taken another step towards the retrieval of radioactive waste from the Asse II mine. On 20 December 2021, it contracted out the draft and  ...

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Main topics in relation to the Asse II mine The main topics deal with individual aspects of the Asse II mine in greater detail. 3D seismic In 2019 and 2020, the BGE conducted 3D seismic measurements  ...

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  ...

Radioactive waste in the Asse II mine From 1967 to 1978, around 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste were emplaced in the mine according to information from the former  ...

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  ...

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