Thousands in Germany Protest Nuclear Waste Train. AFP, November 9, 2008. "Thousands of protesters took part Saturday in a demonstration at a nuclear waste disposal centre in northern Germany where a trainload of treated waste is due to arrive from France next week. Police put the number at the Gorleben site at 14,000 with the organisers claiming 16,000... The train, transporting 123 tonnes of waste, left western France Friday... It is the 11th such trainload of waste to be taken from the retreatment plant at La Hague in Normandy to Germany and is due to arrive Monday. At the border between the two countries three German demonstrators blocked the train by chaining themselves to the track, police said. The high turnout at Gorleben signalled the 'rebirth of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany,' said Jochen Stay, spokesman for the organisers of the demonstration. About 10,000 German police officers have been mobilised to protect the train. The waste will be taken by road for the final 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Dannenberg to Gorleben, about 200 kilometres (120) northwest of Berlin."
2008-11-09
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