Overview
- Police said the fifth Castor container was delivered to the interim storage in Ahaus on Tuesday night without incident during the ongoing series of night transports.
- The campaign will move 152 Castor containers holding roughly 288,000–300,000 tennis-ball‑sized fuel-element spheres from the former Jülich research site to Ahaus.
- Each move runs as a heavy convoy over about 170 kilometres and takes roughly four hours with routes kept secret, highways closed and an estimated hundreds of officers deployed to secure the transport.
- Planned protests and vigils have accompanied several convoys but police report the demonstrations so far have been small and peaceful with no major disturbances.
- The operator has applied to extend the transport permit to the end of August 2028 and the federal authority has not decided, a delay that could stretch the relocation schedule and prolong local road disruptions.