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Tasks and duties of BASE

BASE is responsible for reviewing and monitoring the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management. We see ourselves as a regulatory and also a technical authority that performs both supervisory and licensing functions.

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Tasks and duties of BASE

Our focus areas

The Office is the regulatory and supervisory authority of the Federal Government in the field of final disposal and the licensing authority for the handling and transport of nuclear fuels.

Finding a repository

What is currently happening in the search for a repository site in Germany?

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Finding a repository

safeND 2025: The third BASE research symposium

From 17 to 19 September 2025, the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) invites you to the third meeting of the Interdisciplinary Research Symposium on the Safety of Nuclear Disposal Practices.

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safeND 2025: The third BASE research symposium