Overview
- The third heavy transporter carrying one Castor cask reached the Ahaus interim storage facility without incident.
- Police escorted the shipment with a large convoy and kept the route and timing undisclosed for security reasons.
- Protests remained small, with police counting about 200 participants across four approved demonstrations.
- North Rhine‑Westphalia’s nuclear authority ordered the move because the Jülich storage site could not demonstrate earthquake safety.
- The program covers 152 Castor containers holding roughly 288,000 tennis‑ball‑sized fuel spheres from a former test reactor, making this one of the largest road transports of nuclear waste in decades.