On 25 April 2017, the operator responsibilities for the Asse II mine as well as the Konrad and Morsleben repositories were transferred to the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, BGE). This website of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) will therefore no longer be updated and displays the status as on 24 April 2017. You will find current information at the BGE: www.bge.de

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Asse mine Licensing application for drilling into emplacement chambers notified

The NMU handed over the licence for drilling into emplacement chambers to BfS on 21 April 2011. This licence comprising approximately 100 pages and 32 requirements differs from the draft to some extent. An evaluation has been initiated as to how much planning and time will be required for implementing the requirements made until one can start drilling.

more2011.04.21

Radiation protection Enhanced caesium activity in a control drilling

In a control bore hole that had been set up by the former Asse operator Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) detected an enhanced activity of caesium-137. The BfS carried out the measurement near the so-called brine swamp in front of emplacement chamber 12 in a depth of 750 meter. In the bore hole there is approximately one litre of radioactive brine which escaped from the waste chamber. Approximately 240,000 becquerel per litre were measured. The basic situation in the Asse mine and the running decommissioning procedure for the Asse mine are not affected by the enhanced measured levels. Neither the staff nor the population in the vicinity are at risk.

more2011.04.14

Again no enhanced radioactive exposure

In the past year, too, no enhanced radioactive exposures were measured in the vicinity of the Asse repository in the administrative district of Wolfenbüttel. As the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has informed, four institutions examined nearly 600 samples independently. The examinations did not show any exposure of soil, air, water and agricultural produce and of needles and foliage.

more2011.03.30

Miners carry out pioneering work by retrieving waste

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection has presented the individual working steps for retrieving the radioactive waste from the Asse mine in a clear network plan. "This way, all interested persons can get an idea of the tasks we have to carry out until the repository will be decommissioned safely," a BfS spokesperson said.

more2011.03.29

Asse mine Prime Minister McAllister visits Asse repository

Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, David McAllister, and State Secretary of the Federal Environment Ministry, Ursula Heinen-Esser, caught up on the Asse II repository for radioactive waste on 18 March 2011. Among others, the co-operation between the involved institutions and the acceleration of the licensing procedures required for the retrieval of the waste from Asse was dealt with in an about one-hour-lasting exchange of views with the president of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Wolfram König.

more2011.03.22

Transfer of operator responsibilities

On 25 April 2017, the operator responsibilities for the Asse II mine as well as the Konrad and Morsleben repositories were transferred to the Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, BGE). Previously, the responsibility for the projects was with the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). The foundations for the change of operatorship are laid down in the "Act on the Realignment of the Organisational Structures in the Field of Radioactive Waste Disposal", which became effective on 30 July 2016. The BfS focusses on the federal tasks of radiation protection, for example in the field of defence against nuclear hazards, medical research, mobile communication, UV protection or the measuring networks for environmental radioactivity.

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