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Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung

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Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH
Company typeGmbH
FoundedJuly 2016
Headquarters
Peine, Lower Saxony
,
Germany
Key people
Stefan Studt,[1] Steffen Kanitzund Thomas Lautsch[2][3]
ServicesHigh-level radioactive waste management
Number of employees
c. 1900
Websitewww.bge.de

The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (BGE; Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal) is a German federally owned company based in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany.[4]

The BGE is tasked with high-level radioactive waste management, which includes looking for a site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste that will guarantee the best possible safety for one million years, as well as operating the Konrad and Morsleben final repositories as well as the Asse II and Gorleben mines.[5]

It was established in July 2016, after a law on the reorganisation of the administrative structure in the area of final disposal for nuclear waste had passed. It is organised under private law as a GmbH, a limited liability company, with the sole shareholder being the German Federal Government.[6]

Previously-existing entities Asse-GmbH, the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern für Abfallstoffe as well as parts of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz were merged into the BGE on 20 December 2017.[4][7][8][9]

The organisational structure and tasks of the BGE result from the German Atomic Energy Act (paragraph 9a, sub-paragraph 3, sentences 2 ff. AtG[6]) and the German Repository Site Selection Act (StandAG[10]). Accordingly, it is the responsibility of the federal government to construct and operate repositories for radioactive waste. In order to fulfil this tasks the federal government shall establish a private corporation whose sole shareholder is the German Federal Government.

The federal government continues to exercise supervision through the Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung, an independent federal agency operating under the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.[4] The members of BGE's supervisory board were appointed in July 2017.[11]

BGE has been the operator of the Asse II mine, the Konrad mine, and the Morsleben radioactive waste repository since April 2017.[12] The company also has offices in Berlin and Gorleben.[5][13][14][15]

In September 2020, the BGE published the interim report on sub-areas, in which an interim status of the scientific investigations into the potential repositories was presented.[16] The public was informed about this in the magazine Insights 12/2021.

In its "Einblicke" magazine, the BGE provides information on the site search, Asse, Konrad and Morsleben repository projects. The magazine is distributed regionally or nationally as a press supplement and can be obtained by subscription.[17]

References

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  1. ^ BGE in Peine: Stefan Studt neuer Leiter der Geschäftsführung. In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung. 1 August 2018.
  2. ^ "BfS-Präsident König wird das neue Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit leiten". Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz. 2016-08-03. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21.
  3. ^ Organigramm der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH. Retrieved 29 September 2020 (PDF).
  4. ^ a b c "Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung kommt nach Peine". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  5. ^ a b BGE. "Our Tasks". www.bge.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  6. ^ a b Federal Republic of Germany. "§ 9a Gesetz über die friedliche Verwendung der Kernenergie und den Schutz gegen ihre Gefahren (Atomgesetz) ["German Atomic Energy Act"]". www.gesetze-im-internet.de. Archived from the original on 2011-11-23. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  7. ^ "Hauptsitz der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  8. ^ "Neue BGE-Atombehörde: Heinen-Esser wird Leiterin". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  9. ^ Hans-Jürgen Weyer: Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung formiert sich. In: GMIT/Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen Nr. 71, March 2018, p. 22–33.
  10. ^ Federal Republic of Germany. "Gesetz zur Suche und Auswahl eines Standortes für ein Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle (Standortauswahlgesetz - StandAG)". Archived from the original on 2017-11-16.
  11. ^ "PM - 06/17 - Aufsichtsrat der BGE berufen - BGE". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  12. ^ "Organisation - BGE". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  13. ^ BGE. "Short information about Asse II mine". www.bge.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-20. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  14. ^ BGE. "Short Information about the Konrad repository". www.bge.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  15. ^ BGE. "Short Information about the Morsleben repository". www.bge.de. Archived from the original on 2020-10-19. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  16. ^ "Endlagersuche: Zwischenbericht Teilgebiete - BGE". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  17. ^ "BGE Einblicke: Magazine". www.einblicke.de. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
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