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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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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Conveying plant and Asse 2 shaft hall

press release The Asse environment project as economic factor: Over 1,700 jobs across Germany

In 2014, public spending for the decommissioning of the Asse mine ensured over 1,700 jobs across Germany. This number is based on a current economic study conducted by the Lower Saxon Institute for Economic Research (NIW). The 1,700 jobs comprise both persons working directly at Asse-GmbH and jobs that are required to manage all services and goods required in the environment project.

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press release First chamber of Asse mine being drilled into

Progress in the remediation of the Asse mine: When the visit of Federal Environment Minister, Peter Altmaier, to the repository near Wolfenbüttel was about to come to an end, drilling works started at the first chamber containing radioactive waste. "Today’s drilling into the first Asse chamber is an important step toward the long-term safe decommissioning. The remediation of Asse is a unique task for which there is no experience available. This difficult task can only be solved if all parties involved are co-operating and are aware of their joint responsibility," the president of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Wolfram König, emphasised during the visit.

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press release Retrieving the waste from Asse remains the goal

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) has been tasked with the safe closure of the Asse II mine since 2009. In January 2010, following an intensive process of consultation with the participation of the affected population, the BfS has classified the option of retrieving the waste to be the safest option for the long term. Whether this way is technically feasible and responsible from the safety point of view, is to be found out in a fact-finding process the first step of which will be the drilling into two chambers.

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Chronological sequence of the average and maximum estimated annual effective overall dose in millisieverts for the GM Asse group of employees

press release Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) publishes findings on employee radiation exposure in the Asse final repository

According to the current state of the art in science and technology, the estimated radiation exposure at the Asse final repository is too low for there to be a proven link to cancer among its employees. This is the finding of the first phase of Asse health monitoring (GM Asse), published on February 10, 2011, by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). The BfS estimated the level of radiation exposure using existing measurement and employment data submitted by former operator Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU).

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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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