Transports 1996-2001

Between 1996 and 2011, GNS has already carried out twelve return transports from La Hague in France to the Gorleben interim storage facility in Lower Saxony on behalf of the German nuclear power plant operators. The 108 casks transported in total each contained 28 canisters with vitrified high-level radioactive reprocessing waste. This was all the high-level radioactive waste generated during the reprocessing of German fuel elements at La Hague. The return of high-level radioactive waste from France has thus been completed.

Details of the transports from La Hague to Gorleben:

Transport Date

Number of HLW casks

May 1996

1

March 1997

2

March 2001

6

November 2001

6

November 2002

12

November 2003

12

November 2004

12

November 2005

12

November 2006

12

November 2008

11

November 2010

11

November 2011

11

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