New name for Asse mine website
Asse website can be accessed at www.asse.bund.de
Since 21 October 2013, the digital information site on the decommissioning project can be accessed at www.asse.bund.de.
The contents can also still be accessed at the previous address www.endlager-asse.de. That means: Users need not store again the bookmarks they created on their computers with this address. Persons who enter the old address or click an older bookmark, will automatically be redirected to the new domain www.asse.bund.de.
In the past months, the BfS had been criticised partially for referring to the Asse II mine as "repository" in publications and in its name of the website. The BfS has set out the background of calling the Asse mine a repository, which was originally also demanded by citizens' initiatives.
Now the BfS has decided to do entirely without the term. This way, the challenges associated with the safe decommissioning of the Asse mine are to be in the fore again instead of leading further debates on the terminology.
The BfS will also do without the term "repository" in other publications such as brochures and internet articles. Already at the end of September, the federal authority changed the subtitle of its information bulletin "Insights into the Asse Mine". By and by, also the language of the computer animations, films and brochures on the Asse II mine topic will be adapted. Reports and publications that will not be updated will remain unaffected by the change.