Overview
- RWE and local authorities confirm the two roughly 160–161 meter towers will be brought down at 12:00, falling about 15 seconds apart.
- The Thüringer Sprenggesellschaft will use a tilt‑and‑collapse method with a four‑digit number of boreholes, while exact explosive quantities remain undisclosed for safety.
- Officials will impose an exclusion zone of more than 300 meters, enforce drone flight bans, conduct thermal imaging checks, and designate no spectator parking, with guidance to follow in an upcoming order.
- The collapse is expected to generate about 56,000 tonnes of non‑radioactive concrete rubble for on‑site recycling, as the towers were part of the conventional cooling circuit.
- Decommissioning under atomic supervision is projected to take 15–20 more years, and RWE is preparing future site uses including a large battery project, with authorities also planning for crowds and a small registered demonstration.