Germany’s Konrad repository for low and intermediate-level radioactive waste (LLW and ILW) will not be completed in 2027 as scheduled while some onsite work is running a delay of about two years, according to BGE, the country’s state-owned radioactive waste management organisation.

Konrad, a former iron-ore mine in Lower Saxony, has two shafts, Konrad 1 and 2, which will both be used for Germany’s first repository for LLW and ILW.