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Anti-nuclear protesters block German rail line
Anti-nuclear protesters block German rail line
DAHLENBURG, Germany, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Demonstrators protesting
against plans to ship nuclear waste to a storage site in north
Germany next month briefly blocked a railway line on Saturday, police
said.
Around 140 anti-nuclear activists occupied the railway track near the
north German town of Dahlenburg before being cleared by police. They
did not put up any resistance and there were no arrests.
Dahlenburg is the route along which transports of radioactive waste
will be shipped for the first time in four years from France's La
Hague reprocessing plant to the Gorleben permanent storage site.
The nuclear transports have pitted the government coalition of Social
Democrats and anti-nuclear Greens against grassroots activists angry
at an agreement reached last year with the nuclear industry to scrap
atomic power by the mid-2020s.
Under that deal, transports will continue to and from the La Hague
plant on the French coast, which has refused to accept any more
nuclear waste until Germany takes back material it has already
handled.
In a second incident, around 20 protesters briefly blocked rail
traffic on at the Kehl border crossing with France.
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