First chamber of Asse mine being drilled into Important step
toward safe decommissioning - Year of issue Progress in the
remediation of the Asse mine: When the visit of Federal
Environment Minister, Peter Altmaier, to the repository near
Wolfenbüttel was about to come to an end, drilling works started
at the first chamber containing radioactive waste. Asse
remediation is a unique task "Today’s drilling into the first
Asse chamber is an important step toward the long-term safe
decommissioning. The remediation of Asse is a unique task for
which there is no experience available. This difficult task can
only be solved if all parties involved are co-operating and are
aware of their joint responsibility," the president of the
Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Wolfram König,
emphasised during the visit. The president of the BfS emphasised
that a start of retrieval as late as in the year 2036 was not
acceptable This point in time had been stated in an overall
schedule commissioned by the BfS. The overall