Morsleben (ERAM)
Capacity
37,000m³
Morsleben (ERAM) is a repository facility operated by Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung in Germany. It has a capacity of 37,000 m³ as of 1998.
An East German repository in a salt and potash mine, holding almost 37,000 cubic metres at about 480 metres depth and closed to new waste since 1998. It is being decommissioned with the waste left where it is, the opposite decision to Asse II, and the licence to do so has still not been granted.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung |
| Country | Germany |
| Capacity | 37,000m³ |
| Figure applies to | 1998 |
| Note on the figure | volume emplaced, to be sealed in place |
| Status | closed |
| Commissioned | not stated |
| Coordinates | 52.2167, 11.0833 |
Position in the chain
Other repository facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wolsong LILW Disposal Center, Gyeongju | 800,000drums | operating |
| Konrad | 303,000m³ | construction |
| Yucca Mountain | 70,000tHM total | closed |
| Asse II | 47,000m³ | closed |
| Onkalo | not disclosed | construction |
| Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) | not disclosed | construction |
| Cigéo | not disclosed | planned |
| Canadian deep geological repository | not disclosed | planned |
| Nördlich Lägern | not disclosed | planned |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | not disclosed | operating |
| SFR, Forsmark | not disclosed | operating |
| Olkiluoto VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Loviisa VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Centre de l'Aube (CSA) | not disclosed | operating |
| El Cabril | not disclosed | operating |
| Low Level Waste Repository, Drigg | not disclosed | operating |
| Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center | not disclosed | operating |
| Bátaapáti National Radioactive Waste Repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Yeniseisky underground research laboratory, Krasnoyarsk | not disclosed | construction |
| Beishan underground research laboratory | not disclosed | construction |
Sources
- Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, the Morsleben repository · retrieved 2026-09-06
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