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The Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH ("the federal company for radioactive waste disposal", short BGE) is a German federally owned company based in Peine, Lower Saxony, Germany.[4]
Company type | GmbH |
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Founded | July 2016 |
Headquarters | , Germany |
Key people | Stefan Studt,[1] Steffen Kanitz, Beate Kallenbach-Herbert und Thomas Lautsch[2][3] |
Number of employees | c. 1900 |
Website | www.bge.de |
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]
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, 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, a 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. The company also has offices in Berlin and Gorleben.[5][12][13][14]
References
- ^ BGE in Peine: Stefan Studt neuer Leiter der Geschäftsführung. In: Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung. 1. August 2018.
- ^ "BfS-Präsident König wird das neue Bundesamt für kerntechnische Entsorgungssicherheit leiten". Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz. 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2016-08-03.
- ^ Organigramm der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH. Abgerufen am 29. September 2020 (PDF).
- ^ a b c "Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung kommt nach Peine". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ a b BGE. "Our Tasks". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ 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. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Hauptsitz der Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ "Neue BGE-Atombehörde: Heinen-Esser wird Leiterin". PAZ-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Weyer: Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung formiert sich. In: GMIT/Geowissenschaftliche Mitteilungen Nr. 71, March 2018, p. 22–33.
- ^ Federal Republic of Germany. "Gesetz zur Suche und Auswahl eines Standortes für ein Endlager für hochradioaktive Abfälle (Standortauswahlgesetz - StandAG)".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "PM - 06/17 - Aufsichtsrat der BGE berufen - BGE". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
- ^ BGE. "Short information about Asse II mine". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ BGE. "Short Information about the Konrad repository". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ BGE. "Short Information about the Morsleben repository". www.bge.de. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
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External links
- Official website (in German)
- Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung on YouTube