Overview
- The specialist ship carrying the last seven Castor casks arrived in Brunsbüttel on Tuesday and unloading onto special trucks began at the port.
- Operators plan to move the containers to the Brokdorf interim storage near the Elbe, with the exact road route kept secret and the convoy expected to travel the following day.
- Police deployed multiple units to secure the Brunsbüttel site and reported no demonstrations so far while the activist coalition Castor‑Stoppen has announced vigils and protests along likely transport corridors.
- The casks hold glassified residues from German reactor fuel that was reprocessed at Sellafield, and Germany is legally obliged to accept these returns under existing contracts.
- Brokdorf already stores 76 Castor containers and will hold the new arrivals only temporarily because Germany has not yet identified a final repository for high‑level radioactive waste, a situation that keeps public concern and political debate alive.