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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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Asse - 22.01.2021

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.

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Asse - 22.11.2019

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

Focus on retrieval mine and mining technology.

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