German society for the construction and operation of repository for waste materials

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German company for the construction and operation of repositories for waste materials mbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1979
resolution 2017
Reason for dissolution Transition to the BGE
Seat Peine , Germany
management Thomas Lautsch , Borries Raapke
Number of employees 897 (2012)
sales EUR 138.8 million (2012)
Branch Nuclear technology
Website www.dbe.de

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The German Society for the Construction and Operation of Repositories for Waste Materials mbH (DBE), based in Peine, was a company specializing in the planning, exploration, construction and operation of facilities for the safekeeping and disposal of radioactive waste . It was founded in 1979 and in 2017, together with Asse-GmbH and parts of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), became part of the Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbh (BGE) .

background

The company was responsible for keeping the Gorleben exploratory mine open and operating it , the Konrad mine as well as managing and preparing for the decommissioning of the radioactive waste repository in Morsleben ( ERAM ). The company was also commissioned with projects relating to the disposal of radioactive waste through its subsidiary DBE Technology.

The DBE was founded in 1979 as a 100% indirect, federally owned company and operates on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection . It was also given special rights. The legal basis was Section 9a (3) of the Atomic Energy Act (AtG) . The company was gradually privatized: In 1984, German energy supply companies became shareholders, initially with 25% through the German Society for the Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuels (DWK) . In 1990, the Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service (GNS) , whose shareholders are the German operators of nuclear power plants , took over the shares in DWK and gradually increased their stake to 75% by 2001. Only 25% of the capital belonged to the federally owned Energiewerke Nord . Since 2017, the DBE has been 100% owned by the federally owned Federal Agency for Final Storage .

DBE Technology

The engineering company DBE Technology GmbH , based in Peine, is a 100% subsidiary of DBE. It was founded in 2000 and is used for activities outside of the tasks assigned by the federal government in national and international projects for the disposal of radioactive waste. Focus of DBE Technology are in the areas of radioactive materials, development of waste management strategies and the planning of waste management, mining, cavern construction, tunneling and civil engineering. The subsidiary's turnover in the 2012 financial year was around EUR 6.7 million. On June 21, 2018, DBE Technology became BGE Technology .

Supervised objects

Planned repository for highly radioactive waste in the Gorleben salt dome

To examine the Gorleben salt dome with regard to its suitability as a repository for all types of radioactive waste, the DBE had carried out a geoscientific program since 1979 . Based on the consensus agreement of June 2000, a moratorium (interruption of exploration) was agreed for Gorleben for a period of three to ten years.

Konrad mine

In the former iron ore mine Konrad ( Konrad ) was performed from 1976 to 1982 and an exploratory testing to suitability statement for the disposal of radioactive waste with low heat generation. The plan approval procedure initiated afterwards was completed on May 22, 2002. After the final decision in favor of Konrad was confirmed, the construction of the technical facilities for the disposal and the emplacement chambers began. The first storage was planned for 2013 in 2008. According to a report by the DBE in 2010, completion and commissioning were not expected before 2019. In 2013, the Bochum public prosecutor and the Federal Cartel Office investigated the suspicion of cartel formation by mining specialist companies to the detriment of DBE following an officially approved tender.

Morsleben repository for radioactive waste (ERAM)

The Bartensleben mine ( Morsleben repository for radioactive waste ) was selected in 1970 from ten salt mines for subsequent use as a repository for radioactive waste. From 1971 until the end of emplacement in 1998, a total of 36,752 m³ of radioactive waste and 6,621 radiation sources were disposed of. The cost of closing the pit is estimated at 2.2 billion euros.

criticism

According to critics, the contracts for the disposal of radioactive waste contained many guaranteed privileges that came from the time when the company was still a federal company: secure sales with guaranteed profits, factual non-cancellability and a confidentiality clause in a secret cooperation agreement. When private shareholders came on board from 1984, these contracts were not changed. Disposal brings the four large energy groups E.ON , RWE , EnBW and Vattenfall Europe a high return in view of the one-sided contractual situation . In 2008, the criticisms gave rise to a parliamentary question from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group . The then Federal Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel demanded on April 21, 2009 that the DBE be transferred back to a state-owned company because he saw an interdependence of different interests.

Trivia

The German Society for the Construction and Operation of Repository for Waste Materials mbH (DBE) tried in 1982 to influence the film director Rainer Boldt in the preparations for his film " In the Sign of the Cross ", which deals with the contamination of villagers after a traffic accident in which they informed him in writing that his television film "underlying connection and the resulting consequences can not only be theoretically excluded, but are also practically unthinkable". As a result, several authorities and institutions at the federal, state and local levels failed the z. Support for the shooting has already been promised.

Federal society for final disposal

Negotiations have been ongoing since January 2017 with the aim of transferring all DBE tasks to the new state-owned Federal Agency for Final Storage (BGE), which will then operate all final storage projects for nuclear waste. The BGE will also take over the tasks of Asse GmbH.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2012; can be viewed at www.unternehmensregister.de; Accessed February 20, 2014
  2. ↑ BGE: Press release fusion Asse GmbH and DBE mbH with BGE mbH. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Activities of the German Society for the Construction and Operation of Repository for Waste Materials mbH. (pdf; 117 kB) Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Anna Lührmann, Hans-Josef Fell, other MPs and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN - printed matter 16/11121. German Bundestag, December 8, 2008, accessed October 25, 2013 .
  4. ↑ GNS, company website: Shareholder ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gns.de
  5. ^ History of the GNS
  6. ↑ Individual financial statements as of December 31, 2012; can be viewed at www.unternehmensregister.de; Accessed October 25, 2013
  7. ↑ BGE: Press release DBE TECHNOLOGY becomes BGE TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ It's a long way to get to the approved repository. (No longer available online.) In: Press Releases. Federal Office for Radiation Protection, May 15, 2008, archived from the original on November 11, 2011 ; Retrieved April 1, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.endlager-konrad.de
  9. ↑ M. Bauchmüller: Nuclear waste repository will not be ready in time. Nuclear policy: Konrad mine. sueddeutsche.de, September 23, 2010, accessed April 1, 2011 .
  10. ↑ M. Bauchmüller: Cartel of the underworld . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 20, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2014
  11. ↑ Cartel agreement with Schacht Konrad. DBE is examining claims for damages . In Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung , December 20, 2013, accessed on February 4, 2014
  12. ↑ Merkel's legacy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2008, p. 46-48 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Repository: Nuclear multinationals earn from their own garbage. In: Panorama. ARD, July 22, 2010, accessed on March 28, 2011 .
  14. ↑ "The energy companies earn a lot from the nuclear waste, which they have largely created themselves."
  15. ↑ The reward of fear . In: Spiegel Online . tape April 16 , 1983 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 22, 2019]).

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