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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Ask the BfS for the planned Asse interim storage facility

From now on and until the end of February, questions on the planned interim storage facility can be addressed by email to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). BfS experts will answer your emails and publish questions and answers here on the Asse homepage. It is planned to view and sort the questions in order to avoid doubles.

more2013.12.09

Asse – Workers found radioactively contaminated debris during drilling operations

After having carried out first measurements, a radiation protection officer determined that the debris that had been found in the process of drilling in a depth of 750 metres, was humid and radioactively contaminated. During the operations, the hand of a worker was contaminated. The measured radioactivity was clearly below the permissible limit value. Health detriments can be excluded. The staff of the Asse-GmbH decontaminated the hand that had come into contact with the debris as well as the drill and workplace.

more2013.11.13

Asse mine New name for Asse mine website

Since 21 October 2013, the digital information site on the decommissioning project can be accessed at www.asse.bund.de. The contents can also still be accessed at the previous address www.endlager-asse.de. That means: Users need not store again the bookmarks they created on their computers with this address. Persons who enter the old address or click an older bookmark, will automatically be redirected to the new domain www.asse.bund.de .

more2013.10.21

Asse mine Project group clears leaching test field

The Institute for Knowledge Analysis and Knowledge Synthesis (IWW) of Helmholtz Zentrum München is clearing the so-called leaching test field on the 490-m level of the Asse II mine. On request of the supervisory authorities, the former operator carried out long-term tests with test specimens in this area from 1979, after the emplacement of radioactive waste had stopped. In these tests it was examined how radioactive materials contained in concrete samples are released when they come into contact with different salt solutions. On 12 March 2013, twelve test specimens consisting of concrete including the leaching liquids having generated in the tests were taken from the Asse II mine in altogether 13 containers.

more2013.10.11

Asse mine New Asse spokesperson at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS)

Ina Stelljes is the new Asse spokesperson at the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). Since 1 October, she has been taking care of the BfS communication with the Asse mine.

more2013.10.02

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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