BROKDORF (dpa-AFX) – What is probably the last transport of radioactive waste from the Sellafield processing plant in Great Britain has reached the interim storage facility at the Brokdorf nuclear power plant in the Steinburg district. The waste will be temporarily stored there until there is a place for the final storage of highly radioactive waste in Germany, as a spokesman for the Society for Nuclear Service (GNS) announced.
According to a spokesman for the responsible federal BGZ company for interim storage, the interim storage facility offers 100 storage spaces for containers. There are currently 76 nuclear containers with fuel elements from the Brokdorf nuclear power plant stored there. With the receipt of the seven containers from Sellafield, the storage operation at the site ends. The total of 83 containers will remain there until they are sent to a final storage facility.
The ship with the remaining seven nuclear containers set sail from Great Britain last week and reached the port of Brunsbüttel (Dithmarschen district) on Tuesday. There the containers were loaded onto special trucks.
The nuclear waste is the remains of fuel elements from German nuclear power plants that were processed in England. Germany has committed itself under international law to taking back this waste. The repatriation of nuclear waste from the French La Hague reprocessing plant had already been completed in 2024./xil/DP/men