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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What will become of Asse?

Safety for future generations

Decommissioning planning

The prime aim in the decommissioning of the Asse II mine is the long-term safety of man and environment. According to the present state of knowledge, this can only be achieved by retrieving the waste from the Asse mine. Since 2013, it has also been a legal mandate to retrieve the radioactive wastes.

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The route to retrieval consists of different partial projects. These include in particular

  • the fact-finding to determine planning data for retrieval,
  • planning and building a conditioning plant and an interim storage facility,
  • planning and constructing an additional shaft (shaft 5) via which the wastes will be transported to the surface,
  • planning of retrieval: technical and organisational overall concept for the recovery of the radioactive wastes from the emplacement chambers.

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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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