Secluded in the lush woods of northern Brandenburg, directly between two of the eastern German state’s most popular lakes, a cluster of odd-looking structures sits on an expanse of land spacious enough for at least a nine-hole golf course. The site, some 90 km (55 miles) north of the capital Berlin, is home to the Rheinsberg nuclear power plant, one of the first of its kind to be built in the former East Germany – or all of Germany, for that matter – and the first to close. Yet Rheinsberg is not all that ‘closed.’ Since 1995, not a single watt of electricity has been generated by the Soviet-built pressurized water reactor that once stood here, but still the buildings that housed it – and the workers that operated it – remain. The buildings are severely contaminated, and after 16 years the workers still face the task of dismantling them, which is an undertaking that has proved far more complicated than planners anticipated when the plant was conceived and constructed in the early 1960s. Work in progress Jörg Möller, project manager at Rheinsberg, took me on a tour of the premises to see firsthand how much work has already been… Read full this story
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