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.

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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.

Short Information about the Morsleben repository

Morsleben repository is located in Saxony-Anhalt near the border to Lower Saxony. Around 37,000 m³ of low and intermediate-level waste with negligible heat generation were permanently stored here between 1971 and 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. Small quantities of radioactive waste were also stored intermediately in the mine.

The former salt mine Morsleben does not meet today’s criteria for a repository, but it can be safely closed in accordance with current legal regulations. The legal closure of the repository has already been applied for.

You’ll find more information about the Morsleben repository in the Info Morsleben – and you can see what the situation is like underground at first hand with a tour of the mine.

Yellow castors stacked in a chamber underground

Mine waste material in the West field