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Nuclear waste leaves for storage site in Gorleben
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?Trucks carrying 11 castors of nuclear waste have left a transfer station in northern Germany for a waste storage facility in Gorleben after police removed thousands of protesters from the route.
The nuclear waste is sent from France by train. The consignment have already been delayed by more than a day by protests and blockades. Over 2,400 anti-nuclear activists in Gorleben gathered along the main road and two other routes leading to the storage site.
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Castor nuclear waste containers (L) arrive at the embarking station in Dannenberg November 8, 2010. The controversial shipment of eleven Castor containers with spent German nuclear fuel arrived in Dannenberg on Monday and will be loaded onto trucks before transportation to the nearby Gorleben intermediate storage facility in northern Germany after it left the Frenchreprocessing plant of La Hague on Friday by train. [Xinhua] |
