Mine Adze

The mine of Adze is a mine located close to Remlingen in the district of Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony. It is a potash and salt mine before becoming a underground Research laboratory as from 1965.

Context

The mining extraction in Germany.

Potash and salt extraction

Construction, exploitation and performances of the mine.

Mine of search for Adze

The extraction of salt finishes on March 31st, 1964. March 12th, 1965, GFS buys the mine of Adze to implement research on the storage of the radioactive waste in deep geological layer. Waste slightly radioactive is created starting from April 4th, 1967 and of fairly radioactive waste starting from August 31st, 1972 and this until December 31st, 1978. In 1979, the federal state and the lander of Lower Saxony agree so that the mine of Adze is not authorized any more to receive radioactive waste and accommodates nothing any more but experiments. The mine is then an underground research laboratory until the middle of the years 1990 when the principal experiments finish. Operations of fill intervene between 1995 and 2003, the permanent closure is programmed for 2017.

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