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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Potentials for speeding up

The sinking of the recovery shaft (shaft 5) can be carried out regardless of the outcome of the trial phase for retrieval (fact-finding) and without touching the existing mine. That is one of the results from another expert workshop on the speeding-up of retrieval which was organised by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) in September 2012 in Wolfenbüttel.

Speeding up by parallelisation of workflow

It was set out that one could expect retrieval speeding up if the works on retrieval will be carried out independent of the results gained in the trial phase (fact-finding) and the works will be parallelised. One result of this would be, for example, that the new shaft or the interim storage facility can already be built before all results from the trial phase are available and before it has been clarified whether retrieval can be implemented at all.

"Lex Asse" speeds up work

This procedure for speeding up the process has been facilitated on account of the so-called "Lex Asse" (§ 57b AtG) becoming effective. The new Asse law permits the parallel planning of retrieval and the construction process of facilities required for retrieval (e.g. the recovery shaft and the interim storage facility) regardless of the outcome of the trial phase (fact-finding).

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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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