GERMANY: Train carrying German nuclear waste from French reprocessing plants arrives in Germany

A train carrying German nuclear waste from a French reprocessing plant at la Hague has crossed into Germany on Saturday evening (November 11), slowly making its way towards the northern German interim depot of Gorleben. The twelve containers known as "Castor" crossed the French-German border at Woerth where rail officials were seen checking the train cars with flashlights. Woerth station was sealed off by police, as are the tracks along the way. Each year, thousands of anti-nuclear protesters accompany the nuclear transport, trying to delay the journey with roadblocks and acts of sabotage against the rail tracks, thereby hoping to make the shipment more expensive for German taxpayers. In the northern town of Dannenberg, the twelve containers will be loaded from the train cars onto flatbed trucks for the last 10 kilometre leg of the journey which has to be made by road as rail tracks end here. In Dannenberg and Gorleben, thousands of peaceful demonstrators awaited the arrival of the "Castor," spending time by listening to open air concerts and holding protest marches. According to police, some 10,000 officers are deployed near the interim storage depot of Gorleben where the nuclear waste is expected to arrive on Monday (November 13).

ITN Source | November 12, 2006

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