More than 100,000 casks are at depths of up to 750m in former salt mine
Industrial services provider Bilfinger developing, building and testing machines that will be used to retrieve more than 100,000 casks of low-level radioactive waste from a depth of 750 metres as part of a “unique and pioneering” project at the Asse II mine in northwestern Germany.
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