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.
The Mannheim, Germany-based company said the contract means it is expanding its work on behalf of Germany’s Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung – BGE).
Bilfinger had already been commissioned by BGE in October 2021 to develop technology for the retrieval of radioactive waste from storage chambers at a depth of 511 metres and 725 metres. The length of each project is four years.
The Mannheim, Germany-based company said the contract means it is expanding its work on behalf of Germany’s Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung – BGE).
Bilfinger had already been commissioned by BGE in October 2021 to develop technology for the retrieval of radioactive waste from storage chambers at a depth of 511 metres and 725 metres. The length of each project is four years.
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