Safety The BGE endeavoured to minimise the adverse effects on humans and nature as well as on the commercial use of woodland and agricultural areas. This included the following measures: Enabling  ...

Stability at Morsleben – from mine to repository In deep geological storage, the host rock – that is, the rock that surrounds the radioactive waste – forms the most important barrier for the  ...

Main topic: stability The mine cavities of the Morsleben repository are stable. This stability is of vital importance for the safety of staff working underground and ensures not only the immediate  ...

Prevention of mining hazards in the central part On 30 November 2001 at 12:03 p.m., the Morsleben repository shook the local area. What had happened? In order to safely decommission a warning system  ...

Operational geomechanical monitoring in Morsleben The Morsleben repository is monitored from various different perspectives, including radiation protection, physical security and operational  ...

The work of the mine surveying team: pits, boundaries and geodata The members of the mine surveying team play a vital role in the comprehensive monitoring of stability in the Morsleben repository.  ...

Unwanted changes: stabilisation measures for decommissioning What is the objective of the planned decommissioning of the Morsleben repository? It is imperative that the emplaced low- and  ...

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History of the Asse II mine The Asse II mine is one of three facilities constructed on the Asse mountain range in around 1900 for the purpose of salt extraction, which was discontinued in 1964. The  ...

Radioactive waste in the Asse II mine From 1967 to 1978, around 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste were emplaced in the mine according to information from the former  ...