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Press release: Gorleben mine to be closed

With the interim report of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE) on 28 September 2020, the Gorleben salt dome was eliminated from the repository search for geological reasons. Since then, the BGE and the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) have been investigating how to proceed with the Gorleben mine in Lower Saxony. The BMU has now decided to commission the BGE with the decommissioning of the mine.

Press release No. 1 / 22 - Plans approved for waste treatment plant and interim storage facility at the Asse mine

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 licensing planning for the waste treatment plant and interim storage facility.

No. 1/21 - Two new boreholes started at Asse

From February onwards, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) is expanding its exploratory work east of the Asse II mine. The two new boreholes will represent an important step towards the retrieval of radioactive waste, which is expected to begin in 2033.

No. 13/19 - The BGE presents the current status at the A2B

Focus on retrieval mine and mining technology.

The graphic shows a schematic drilling course and the derived area that would be excluded at the surface.

No. 12/19 - This is how the BGE wants to apply the exclusion criteria

The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) puts its application methodologies for the exclusion criteria in the site selection procedure up for debate. Comments are possible in the new “Forum” of the BGE.

Press release: Gorleben mine to be closed

Press release No. 1 / 22 - Plans approved for waste treatment plant and interim storage facility at the Asse mine

No. 1/21 - Two new boreholes started at Asse

No. 13/19 - The BGE presents the current status at the A2B

No. 12/19 - This is how the BGE wants to apply the exclusion criteria

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