2025 - Castor Transport to Bavaria: What’s Next for Nuclear Waste Storage?

For 20 hours the train was travelling across Germany with highly radioactive waste. Now the containers are moved to the intermediate warehouse at the Isar. The central problem remains: Where to with the waste after the intermediate solution?

A train with highly radioactive nuclear waste drove through Germany without incident.

2025 - Castor Transport to Bavaria: What’s Next for Nuclear Waste Storage?

A train transporting highly radioactive waste journeyed 900 kilometers across Germany to the Isar interim storage facility, concluding without incident. The seven Castor containers, containing waste from UK processing, highlight ongoing challenges in nuclear waste management, including the return of additional containers still in the UK. Although public opposition has diminished since the nuclear phase-out, concerns persist about long-term stora…

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With the arrival of the nuclear waste in the interim storage the work is not complete. Castor containers must be stored.

Without incident, the Castor transport arrived in Bavaria at around 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon. After about 17 hours of driving across Germany, the train reached its destination, the station Wörth an der Isar. The station is located about three kilometers from its final destination, Niederaichbach bei Landshut. Here the radioactive nuclear waste is to be stored on the site of the shut down nuclear power plant Isar 2. The transport runs smoothl…