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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Members of Widekind Lodge visit Konrad

On St. Nicholas Day members of the Widekind Lodge visited the Konrad information centre.

The Widekind Lodge visiting INFO KONRAD Widekind-LodgeThe Widekind Lodge visiting INFO KONRAD

The members of the Wideking Lodge brought lots of different questions to the Konrad information centre: What about the Konrad geology? Would the repository also be suitable for high-level radioactive waste? And why is granite discussed as a storage medium although it tends to form clefts? And what about the cases of leukaemia around the Asse mine which are frequently being discussed by the press?

The Widekind Lodge is a humanitarian association and is part of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows acting world-wide. The Order’s symbol are three chain links symbolically presenting the mottos “friendship”, “love” and “truth”. The Widekind Lodge holds a legal estate willed to it by the couple Julius and Anna Staats which is used for relief projects. Thus, around 40,000 euros have been spent in this way since 1991.

State of 2010.12.06

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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