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Rural district of Wolfenbüttel supports works for exploratory drilling for shaft 5

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection expressly appreciates the support provided by the rural district of Wolfenbüttel in terms of the works on the exploratory drilling for the new shaft 5. As the local nature conservation authority, the rural district of Wolfenbüttel issued a dispensation for the Asse GmbH to carry out the exploratory drilling in the landscape protection area. The Lower Saxon State Forestry Agency has been tasked with carrying out the necessary works in co-ordination with the Asse GmbH. This affects an area covering maximum 5,000 square metres. The new shaft 5 needs to be constructed to retrieve the waste from the Asse repository.

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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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