The final shipment of radioactive waste from the British Sellafield plant has arrived at the interim storage facility of the Brokdorf nuclear power plant. Seven containers were placed there.
A spokesperson for the Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service confirmed the arrival. The ship carrying the containers had departed Great Britain the previous week and reached the port of Brunsbüttel on Tuesday. From there the containers were transferred to special trucks and taken to the interim storage site.
The facility offers space for 100 containers. Previously 76 containers holding spent fuel from the Brokdorf plant were stored there. With the addition of the seven containers from Sellafield, storage operations at the site have ended. A total of 83 containers will now remain until final disposal.
Germany had committed under international law to take back the nuclear waste reprocessed in England. The return of waste from the French facility La Hague was completed in 2024.
