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.