Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung: Difference between revisions

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| key_people = [[Stefan Studt]],<ref>[http://www.paz-online.de/Stadt-Peine/BGE-in-Peine-Stefan-Studt-neuer-Leiter-der-Geschaeftsfuehrung ''BGE in Peine: Stefan Studt neuer Leiter der Geschäftsführung.''] In: ''Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung.'' 1 August 2018.</ref> [[Steffen Kanitz]]und [[Thomas Lautsch]]<ref>{{cite web|title=BfS-Präsident König wird das neue Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit leiten|periodical=|publisher=[[Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz]]|url=http://www.bfs.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/BfS/DE/2016/0803-bfe.html|url-status=dead|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021092011/http://www.bfs.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/BfS/DE/2016/0803-bfe.html|archive-date=2021-10-21|last=|date=2016-08-03|year=|language=|pages=|quote=}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bge.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Organisation/Organigramm/2020-09-01-Organigramm.pdf Organigramm der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH.] Retrieved 29 September 2020 (PDF).</ref>

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 mine|Konrad]] and [[Morsleben radioactive waste repository|Morsleben]] final repositories as well as the [[Asse II mine|Asse II]] and Gorleben mines.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=BGE|first=|date=|title=Our Tasks|url=https://www.bge.de/en/bge/tasks/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021041529/https://www.bge.de/en/bge/tasks/ |archive-date=2020-10-21 |access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.bge.de}}</ref>

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 [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|GmbH]], a limited liability company, with the sole shareholder being the German [[Federal government of germany|Federal Government]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Federal Republic of Germany|first=|date=|title=§ 9a Gesetz über die friedliche Verwendung der Kernenergie und den Schutz gegen ihre Gefahren (Atomgesetz) ["German Atomic Energy Act"]|url=https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/atg/__9a.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123221743/http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/atg/__9a.html |archive-date=2011-11-23 |access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.gesetze-im-internet.de}}</ref>

The before existing 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 December 20, December 2017.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Hauptsitz der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung|url=https://www.paz-online.de/Stadt-Peine/Hauptsitz-der-Bundesgesellschaft-fuer-Endlagerung|access-date=2020-10-27|website=PAZ-online.de|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Neue BGE-Atombehörde: Heinen-Esser wird Leiterin|url=https://www.paz-online.de/Stadt-Peine/Neue-BGE-Atombehoerde-Heinen-Esser-wird-Leiterin|access-date=2020-10-27|website=PAZ-online.de|language=de}}</ref><ref>Hans-Jürgen Weyer: ''Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung formiert sich.'' In: ''GMIT/Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen'' Nr. 71, March 2018, p. 22–33.</ref>

The organisational structure and tasks of the BGE result from the German Atomic Energy Act (paragraph 9a, sub-paragraph 3, sentences 2 ff. AtG<ref name=":2" />) and the German Repository Site Selection Act (StandAG<ref>{{Cite web|last=Federal Republic of Germany|first=|date=|title=Gesetz zur Suche und Auswahl eines Standortes für ein Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle (Standortauswahlgesetz - StandAG)|url=https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/standag_2017/BJNR107410017.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116171156/http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de:80/standag_2017/BJNR107410017.html |archive-date=2017-11-16 |access-date=|website=}}</ref>). 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.

BGE has been the operator of the [[Asse II mine]], the [[Konrad mine]], and the [[Morsleben radioactive waste repository]] since April 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Organisation - BGE |url=https://www.bge.de/de/bge/organisation/ |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=www.bge.de}}</ref> The company also has offices in [[Berlin]] and [[Gorleben]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=BGE|first=|date=|title=Short information about Asse II mine|url=https://www.bge.de/en/asse/short-information/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020003516/https://www.bge.de/en/asse/short-information/ |archive-date=2020-10-20 |access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.bge.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=BGE|first=|date=|title=Short Information about the Konrad repository|url=https://www.bge.de/en/konrad/short-information/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021135202/https://www.bge.de/en/konrad/short-information/ |archive-date=2020-10-21 |access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.bge.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=BGE|first=|date=|title=Short Information about the Morsleben repository|url=https://www.bge.de/en/morsleben/short-information/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019220420/https://www.bge.de/en/morsleben/short-information/ |archive-date=2020-10-19 |access-date=2020-11-25|website=www.bge.de}}</ref>