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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Probe for the measurement of the gamma local dose rate above the Asse information centre

statement Measures to protect the area surrounding the Asse mine

Since 2009, BfS has been expanding and improving the measuring network for environmental monitoring. To protect their health, the Asse mine staff are controlled on a regular basis. Neither in the area surrounding the mine nor among the staff there are any abnormalities or enhanced measured values. The environmental monitoring values are in compliance with those measured at other places in Germany. Up until today, no link can be found between the operation of the Asse mine and an increased cancer rate in the area.

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Headframe and shaft house shaft Asse 2

statement SSK: No new findings on the safe decommissioning of the Asse mine

BfS comments on current recommendations of the German Commission on Radiological Protection (SSK).

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Conveying plant and Asse 2 shaft hall

News Wanted: Taking over responsibility

Despite great political and societal agreement upon the burdens of a failed handling of nuclear wastes using the example of the Asse mine, the successful management of the challenges ahead requires broad and public support. "What I am experiencing at present is that some discussions achieve the exact opposite of what the parties concerned actually want", Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) said. It could be observed how, in the end, an emotional outrage leads to a situation where objective and solution-oriented discussions hardly stand any chance.

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Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety Source: Bundesregierung/Jesco Denzel

press release "Act, however uncomfortable it may be"

Clear roles and a common understanding of who is responsible for what in terms of the safe decommissioning of the Asse mine, are prerequisites for successfully mastering the challenges ahead. This is the conclusion Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter came to, Parliament State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry and MdB, at a meeting in Braunschweig. Together with Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, as well as Hans-Albert Lennartz, commercial manager of Asse-GmbH, she presented the current status of preparatory work for the retrieval of the radioactive wastes in an informative meeting on Tuesday evening.

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View at the shaft tower of the Asse II mine

event Asse: Caught between interests, responsibility and action

In what tension field the Asse project is caught was discussed on Tuesday, 29 November 2016 by Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry, Wolfram König, President of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, and Hans-Albert Lennartz, commercial manager of Asse-GmbH, in the Media House of Braunschweiger Zeitungsverlag.

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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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