In accordance with its legal mandate, BASE is in charge of permanently storing analogue and digital information regarding the interim and final storage of radioactive waste.

The repository should protect people and the environment from radioactive substances for a million years.

BASE collects information about the repository and the materials in storage that is relevant in terms of society and safety. The information is stored in both analogue and digital form. This secure, processed information should be available beyond the time of repository closure and for at least 500 years thereafter.

BASE therefore faces the following challenge: it must preserve an institutional awareness of the importance of the systematically compiled documents over such periods of time. In doing so, it will gradually become the "memory of nuclear waste disposal" in Germany.