[4] The BGE is tasked with high-level radioactive waste management, which includes looking for a site for a repository for high-level radioactive waste that will guarantee the best possible safety for one million years, as well as operating the Konrad and Morsleben final repositories as well as the Asse II and Gorleben mines.

[5] It was established in July 2016, after a law on the reorganisation of the administrative structure in the area of final disposal for nuclear waste had passed.

It is organised under private law as a GmbH, a limited liability company, with the sole shareholder being the German Federal Government.

[4][7][8][9] The organisational structure and tasks of the BGE result from the German Atomic Energy Act (paragraph 9a, sub-paragraph 3, sentences 2 ff.

In its "Einblicke" magazine, the BGE provides information on the site search, Asse, Konrad and Morsleben repository projects.