Actors and tasks The Basic Law gives the federal government exclusive legislative power with respect to the disposal of radioactive substances. This stipulation is found in Article 73(1). The  ...

Main topics in relation to the Asse II mine The main topics deal with individual aspects of the Asse II mine in greater detail. 3D seismic In 2019 and 2020, the BGE conducted 3D seismic measurements  ...

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International collaboration by the BGE The goals of international collaboration regarding the disposal of radioactive waste are to learn from one another, to closely monitor the state of the art of  ...

Asse 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  ...

Gorleben Joint press release from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) with the Lower Saxony Ministry for Environment, Energy, Construction and  ...

Morsleben repository At the Morsleben repository, there are almost 37,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste stored at a depth of some 480 metres. Morsleben is the first  ...

Asse II mine Located in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, the Asse II mine stores 47,000 cubic metres of low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste deep underground. This is not a safe  ...

Endlagersuche 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  ...

Repository search With the Sub-areas Interim Report, the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung (BGE) has reduced the blank map of potential repository sites in Germany to about half of the country. The  ...