Overview

• Germany’s nuclear safety authority BASE approved the road transports earlier this week with immediate enforceability, limiting the permit to 31 August 2027.
• The plan covers 152 Castor casks carrying about 300,000 fuel‑element pebbles over roughly 170 kilometers from Jülich to the interim storage site in Ahaus.
• BUND argues the shipments pose unnecessary risks and has requested that the permit not be executed immediately to allow court scrutiny.
• The city of Ahaus is reviewing possible legal action, even as a late‑2024 OVG NRW ruling upheld the legality of storage at the Ahaus facility.
• Opponents point to security demands and infrastructure concerns, and BUND proposes building a new secure interim store in Jülich given the expired 2013 license there and Ahaus’s time‑limited approval.