Castor transport: Special ship with nuclear waste containers arrived

Seven Castor containers with highly radioactive atomic waste have arrived in Germany. The specialship was scheduled for schedule in Nordenham in Lower Saxony at 6:00 a.m., said a spokesman for the Society for Nuclear Service (GNS) of the German Press Agency. The containers come from a refurbishment system in Great Britain and are transported to the Isar intermediate camp in Bavaria.

According to GNS, details on the route of the transport and the schedule are not published for security reasons.

The freight is now reloaded to a train in the harbor by crane – a wagon per Castor container. Expert measurements were carried out, the GNS said. It must be demonstrated that the legally prescribed radiation limit values ​​- technical language: limit values ​​of the local dose performance (ODL) – are reliably observed. Corresponding measurements had already been in Sellafield.

The special ship “Pacific Grebe” left the port in Barrow-in furness last Wednesday. Nuclear opponents have been holding rallies and vigils in various locations for a few days.

The nuclear waste was created during the reworking of fuel elements from German nuclear power plants in the British Sellafield. The Federal Republic of Germany and the German power plant operators have undertaken to withdraw this waste.

The intermediate camp is located at the location of the former Isar nuclear power plant in the Landshut district. Block I was switched off in 2011, Block II was removed from the network in 2023. Both systems are in dismantling.

Seven other containers, which are temporarily stored in Brokdorf (Schleswig-Holstein), have to be withdrawn from Sellafield. Six containers from Sellafield had already been brought to Biblis (Hessen) in 2020.