Overview
- The two 160‑metre towers are scheduled to be brought down by controlled explosions on Saturday at 12:00, with RWE as operator and Thüringer Sprenggesellschaft executing under engineer Ulrike Matthes.
- County authorities will enforce an exclusion zone from Friday 24 Oct., 21:00 until the all‑clear, with fines up to €3,000, road closures, one‑way traffic on sections of St 2025 and St 2028, and about 1,900 designated roadside parking spaces.
- Drone and other aircraft operations are prohibited around the former nuclear site, and police say they will enforce access and airspace rules and prepare for contingencies.
- Planners drilled more than 1,000 charge holes and will use pre‑blasts to clear wildlife and water‑pool blasts to suppress dust; roughly 56,000 tonnes of concrete are to be processed into recycled aggregate.
- Nuklearia and WePlanet have announced a protest and information stand at the edge of the restricted area on Saturday, and RWE plans a battery‑storage groundbreaking at the site four days after the blast.