Greenpeace occupies German nuclear dump

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Greenpeace occupies German nuclear dump



GORLEBEN, Germany, March 16 (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists 

occupied a watch tower at a German nuclear waste dump on 

Friday but ended their protest after police evicted most of them. 



The environmental groups said 40 protesters entered the Gorleben 

storage facility southeast of Hamburg to protest against imminent 

nuclear waste shipments from France. 



Police ejected most of them, but 16 kept up the protest until some 

of them were also forced out. The protest was then called off, a 

Greenpeace spokesman said. 



Police in the nearby town of Lueneburg said they held several 

Greenpeace members for questioning but released them. 



After a suspension of about three years, waste originally from 

German nuclear plants is due in late March or early April to be sent 

by rail back from France's La Hague reprocessing plant for storage 

at Gorleben. 



Police expect thousands of demonstrators to try to block the 

transports. During the last transports, police and activists fought 

running battles. 



The resumption of shipments has been a major headache for the 

anti-nuclear Greens party, junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard 

Schroeder's coalition. 



With the transports expressly permitted under the long-term 

withdrawal from nuclear power negotiated last year by Greens 

Environment Minister Juergen Trittin, the environmentalist party has 

urged members to demonstrate peacefully. 



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