Main topic: Salt water in the Asse mine Water has been seeping into the Asse II mine for decades, resulting in a risk of what is known as “drowning”. Miners use this term to describe a situation in  ...

The Gorleben mine The Gorleben salt dome is located in the municipality of Gorleben in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of north-east Lower Saxony. East of the River Elbe, the dome continues as the  ...

Konrad repository At the Konrad mine in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, work is underway on the construction of Germany’s first repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste to be licensed  ...

Welcome to the BGE! Welcome to the homepage of the BGE, the federal company for radioactive waste disposal. On our website we publish our latest press releases and inform interested citizens and  ...

The Management Board The BGE is represented by three managing directors. Iris Graffunder Iris Graffunder – Chair of the Management Board Iris Graffunder has been Chair of the Management Board of the  ...

Tasks BGE is looking for a site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste that will guarantee the best possible safety for one million years and operates the Konrad and Morsleben final  ...

Site selection procedure The site selection procedure is based on the Repository Site Selection Act (StandAG), which sent the search for a repository site for high-level radioactive waste in Germany  ...

Repository search In Germany, discussions about the “repository search” relate to the process of selecting a repository site for high-level radioactive waste. On this page : Video: Repository search  ...

Radioactive waste for the Konrad repository The Konrad repository is licensed for a volume of 303,000 cubic metres of packaged low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste (according to the licence:  ...

Licensing of the Konrad repository Following the initial idea of using the Konrad mine as a repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste, it was a long time before implementation  ...