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Nuclear train at German depot after turbulent trip

(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-11-08 19:23
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DANNENBERG, Germany - A shipment of nuclear waste has arrived at a railway depot in northern Germany after a nearly three-day trip from France that was regularly disrupted by protests.

Nuclear train at German depot after turbulent trip
A Castor nuclear waste container is loaded from a train onto a special flat bed truck at the embarking station in Dannenberg Nov 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 French reprocessing plant of La Hague on Friday by train. [Photo/Agencies]

The train carrying 11 containers of waste arrived Monday in the town of Dannenberg. The waste will now be loaded onto trucks for the final 12-mile (20-kilometer) leg of the trip to a storage site at Gorleben.

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The loading is expected to take most the rest of the day.

The train completed the last leg of its journey after some 3,000 protesters were removed from the tracks.

Police say the road to Gorleben is still blocked by some 1,600 protesters.

Activists say neither the waste containers nor the Gorleben site, a temporary storage facility, are safe.

 

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