In the search for a final storage site for Germany's nuclear waste, some areas of Saxony are still being considered as potentially suitable locations. According to the latest assessment by the Federal Company for Final Disposal (BGE), smaller parts of the districts of Bautzen, Central Saxony, Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and the Ore Mountains are among the particularly suitable areas that have passed the previous test steps for a possible final repository, according to the BGE. This also includes the area around Seiffen and Altenberg.
The BGE has identified such particularly suitable areas in various parts of Germany for the first time - including several regions in Bavaria, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt in the Saale district. In total, 25 percent of Germany's land area is still suitable for a possible repository. Large parts of northern Germany in particular are still in the running for a site. One of the reasons for this is that large areas there have not yet been assessed. The BGE experts are sifting through more and more regions in a multi-stage process.
