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The '''Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH''' ('''BGE'''; ''Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal'') is a German federally owned company based in [[Peine]], [[Lower Saxony]], Germany.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung kommt nach Peine|url=https://www.paz-online.de/Stadt-Peine/Bundesgesellschaft-fuer-Endlagerung-kommt-nach-Peine|access-date=2020-10-27|website=PAZ-online.de|language=de}}</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>
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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]].<ref name=":0" /> The members of BGE's supervisory board were appointed in July 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PM - 06/17 - Aufsichtsrat der BGE berufen - BGE|url=https://www.bge.de/de/pressemitteilungen/2017/07/pm-0617-aufsichtsrat-der-bge-berufen/|access-date=2020-10-27|website=www.bge.de}}</ref>
BGE has been the operator of the [[Asse II mine]], the [[Konrad mine]], and the [[Morsleben radioactive waste repository]] since April 2017. 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>
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