German police guarding convoy fear radiation danger

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

You will all just love the following article. In this interview we 
have the senior Police Union (GdP) official addressing long term 
effects of radiation, I quote: Wimmer said radiation from the waste 
could cause "miscarriages and cancer, especially leukemia," and that 
these diseases could occur up to 15 years later as a result of 
exposure. Below is the entire article:

                   
                   COLOGNE, Germany, March 20 (AFP) - German police
                   say they are worried about radiation risks from
                   guarding a convoy of nuclear waste and are asking
                   environmentalist protesters to help them keep a
                   safe distance from the train.

                   "It is not entirely clear if the containers
                   (carrying the waste) are truly safe," said senior
                   Police Union (GdP) official Hans-Dieter Wimmer in
                   an interview with the Cologne newspaper Express
                   published Friday.

                   The union has called on the interior ministry to
                   take full responsibility for any radiation damage
                   to the some 30,000 police involved in providing
                   security for the waste, which was being transported
                   Friday to the Ahaus storage center near the Dutch
                   border.

                   GdP chief Hermann Lutz called for an alliance
                   between police and peaceful anti-nuclear
                   demonstrators saying in interview in the
                   Hannoverschen Neuen Presse Friday that both wanted
                   life and health,

                   He said it would be "helpful if there could be a
                   coalition with anti-nuclear protestors who are
                   opposed to chaos."

                   He said demonstrators who cared about health and
                   life should not force policemen too close to the
                   containers.

                   Wimmer said radiation from the waste could cause
                   "miscarriages and cancer, especially leukemia," and
                   that these diseases could occur up to 15 years
                   later as a result of exposure.
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