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.

Supervisory Board

BGE mission statement

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

Current inventory

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.

Representative preliminary safety analyses

Planning-scientific weighing criteria

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

History of the Asse II mine

Radioactive waste in the Asse II mine

Asse II mine info centre and public tours

Main topic: 3D seismic survey

Main topic: Salt water in the Asse mine

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

History of the Konrad repository

Radioactive waste for the Konrad repository

Licensing of the Konrad repository

Actors and tasks

Info centre and tours

Main topic: Evaluation of the safety requirements for the Konrad repository

Main topic: The Konrad repository – a multigenerational project

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

History of the Morsleben repository

Radioactive waste in the Morsleben repository

Decommissioning of the Morsleben repository

Actors and tasks

Info Morsleben and public tours

Main topic: Stability

Stability at Morsleben – from mine to repository

Prevention of mining hazards in the central part

Operational geomechanical monitoring in Morsleben

The work of the mine surveying team: pits, boundaries and geodata

Unwanted changes: stabilisation measures for decommissioning

The Gorleben mine

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

Press release No. 01/25 - BGE

In July, the BGE is getting a new Technical Managing Director

02/05/2025: On 1 July 2025, Jürgen Korth will assume the position of Technical Managing Director of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung from Dr Thomas Lautsch

Zwei Männer stehen vor einer blauen Hand und schütteln sich die Hände. Sie haben beide kurze Haare, tragen weiße Hemden und darüber jeweils ein schwarzes Sakko.

Dr Jan-Niclas Gesenhues (left), Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, congratulates Jürgen Korth, the future Technical Managing Director of the BGE, on his new position.

The Supervisory Board of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has decided to appoint Jürgen Korth as Technical Managing Director of the BGE with effect from 1 July 2025. Korth is a graduate engineer and is currently Director of Technical Services at MIBRAG GmbH, a lignite mining company based in southern Saxony-Anhalt.

The new appointment is welcomed by Dr. Jan-Niclas Gesenhues, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry and Chair of the Supervisory Board: “In Jürgen Korth, we’re gaining a skilled manager with experience in project management and in leading large organisations, as well as several years of expertise in mining. In the future, he will be responsible for the Konrad, Asse, Morsleben and Gorleben divisions as well as the cross-sectional technical division.”

Dr Thomas Lautsch will remain in office until 30 June 2025 and will manage the company together with the two other managing directors, Iris Graffunder and Marlis Koop.