Overview

• The county’s exclusion zone starts Friday, Oct. 24 at 21:00 and lasts until the third post-blast signal on Saturday, with no entry permitted.
• Authorities expect heavy spectator traffic, have created roughly 1,900 roadside parking spots along about 7.6 kilometers, and have designated no official viewing areas.
• The Thüringer Sprenggesellschaft prepared the towers with more than 1,000 explosive boreholes to make each 160‑meter structure collapse inward on a small footprint.
• Safety and environmental steps include a pre-detonation to drive wildlife away, water-pool blasts to reduce dust, and an expanded prohibition on drones and overflights.
• RWE says about 56,000 tonnes of reinforced concrete will be processed for recycling, and a battery storage project is scheduled to break ground four days after the implosion while interim spent-fuel storage remains on site.