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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Works for safe decommissioning

Current works relating to fact-finding

The objective of the comparison of options was to overcome deficits in the planning of retrieval. This was to be done by an in-depth inquiry of facts (fact-finding). According to the original plan, two emplacement chambers were to be explored, opened and a part of the stored waste recovered as a test with the help of drillings.

View of the Control desk of drill rig Control desk of drill rigControl desk of drill rig during start of drilling process.

Today, modified legal conditions provide new optimisation possibilities in the fact-finding. A group of experts developed improvement possibilities for the recovery of the Asse wastes and presented them to the public in April 2015.

You will receive information on the technical and commercial processes relating to the fact-finding directly from the press releases of Asse-GmbH.

Current status of works (fact-finging)

Technical and commercial processes (German only)

Work area at a glance

State of 2016.08.09

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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