On 10 January 2008, BUTTING celebrated the successful delivery of its 200th Castor V/19 container with a festive ceremony, which also commemorated an internal generational change. Around 30 countries worldwide use nuclear energy to generate electricity. Four hundred and twenty nuclear power stations are operated for this purpose, 17 of them in Germany. The operation and decommissioning of nuclear power stations gives rise to radioactive residual and waste materials, which have to be utilised or disposed of safely. For this purpose, the materials must be collected, transported, treated and placed in intermediate and final storage. To manufacture components for the energy industry, especially for nuclear plants, requires quality work of the highest degree, able to be reproduced again and again. Tightly monitored tolerances have to be maintained by experienced employees. The Castor V/19 container is constructed for the transportation and storage of 19 spent fuel elements from pressurised water reactors of the 1300MW type. At the start of 1993, BUTTING and the Gesellschaft für Nuklear-Service (Company for nuclear service, GNS) began the first construction plans for this container. In January 1994, the first contract to supply 5 containers was jointly signed. The first container was successfully delivered as early as November 1994. By January 2008, 200 containers of this type were produced by the BUTTING company. BUTTING used the occasion of the celebrations for the supply of the 200th container to carry out an internal generational change. After 10 years in charge of the Container Manufacturing Department, Otto Salzbrunn will leave the company at the end of February and take early retirement. Holger Flohr will take over as head of the department, supported in his work by Björn Berlin and Bodo Hübner.
