On behalf of the federal government, the BGE is responsible for the permanent storage of radioactive waste deep underground. Find out more about its structure, organization, tasks and projects here.

International collaboration

Here you can find all of the BGE’s press releases regarding its projects.

Announcements and press releases

Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste

In Germany, radioactive waste is to be stored in repositories deep below the earth’s surface. These pages set out where radioactive waste arises, as well as what quantities and types exist.

Background information

Product control

Repository search

The selection of a repository site for high-level radioactive waste in Germany is being carried out as a science-based, transparent and learning process. There are three eligible types of host rock.

Sub-areas interim report

Deep underground, the Asse II mine stores 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. This is not a safe place for the waste to be. It must be retrieved, and the mine must then be decommissioned in accordance with the BGE’s legal mandate. Here, we provide an overview.

Short information

Asse II mine info centre and public tours

At the Konrad mine in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, work is currently underway on building Germany’s first repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste to be licensed under nuclear law.

Short information

Info centre and tours

The Morsleben repository is the first German repository that is to be decommissioned in accordance with nuclear law and with the low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste left in place.

Short information

Info Morsleben and public tours

Main topic: Stability

The Gorleben mine

The BGE has been mandated to close the Gorleben mine. This page provides information on the Gorleben project.

Endlager Konrad

No. 8/19 – Reception at Info Konrad

07/01/2019: The new BGE Management Board would like to meet the citizens of the siting regions on an annual basis and talk with them in a relaxed atmosphere. You are cordially invited to the annual reception at Info Konrad on 8 July.

Gebäudeansicht der Info Konrad in Salzgitter

Exterior view of Info Konrad

The new BGE Management Board would like to meet the citizens of the siting regions on an annual basis and talk with them in a relaxed atmosphere. To this end, you are cordially invited to a public exchange at Info Konrad:

Thursday, 8 July 2019, 5:00 p.m.
Konrad info
Chemnitzer Str. 27, 38226 Salzgitter-Lebenstedt

Please register info-konrad(at)bge.de if you would like to attend the event.

The BGE is a federally owned company within the portfolio of the Federal Environment Ministry. On 25 April 2017, the BGE assumed responsibility from the Federal Office for Radiation Protection as the operator of the Asse II mine and the Konrad and Morsleben repositories. Its other tasks include searching for a repository site for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste produced in Germany on the basis of the Repository Site Selection Act, which entered into force in May 2017. The managing directors are Stefan Studt (Chair), Steffen Kanitz (Deputy Chair), Beate Kallenbach-Herbert (Commercial Manager) and Dr Thomas Lautsch (Technical Manager).