Overview
- The administrative court in Berlin dismissed BUND North Rhine-Westphalia’s emergency application as formally inadmissible and substantively unfounded.
- Judges said they could only review whether the approval was based on an adequate data set consistent with current science and technology, not redo the risk analysis.
- BASE welcomed the decision as confirming its review, noting its August 25, 2025 approval remains valid.
- BUND can appeal to the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin-Brandenburg, but any appeal would not have suspensive effect.
- The plan envisions up to 152 Castor shipments over roughly 170 kilometers carrying about 300,000 fuel spheres, with extensive preparations, police-protected road convoys likely, and context that Jülich’s last storage permit expired in 2013.