Asse - 06.04.2022

Press Release No. 6/22 – BGE applies for regional planning procedure Asse retrieval

Regional Planning Announcement published.

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Endlagersuche - 28.03.2022

Press Release No. 5/22 –The BGE presents its concept for the narrowing down of sub-areas

Initial safety assessments for potential nuclear waste repositories – BGE puts forward proposed methodology for discussion.

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Endlagersuche - 03.03.2022

Press Release No. 4/22 – BGE publishes the sixth update to the data report on data relating to exclusion criteria decisions

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 site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste.

Luftaufnahme des Bergwerks Gorleben
17.09.2021

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.

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Asse - 10.01.2022

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.

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