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Demonstrators protest German nuke waste shipments |
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HOENHEIM, France - Anti-nuclear demonstrators gathered yesterday to protest against the rail-based shipment of atomic waste from German nuclear power plants to a reprocessing site in northern France.
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A Reuters reporter said about 50 people, including environmentalists and militant leftists, massed near Strasbourg but did not try to block trains carrying seven containers of radioactive waste to the plant in La Hague near Cherbourg. The shipments passed Strasbourg, near the German border, at about 8:00 p.m. (1800 GMT). The operation had been scrapped twice at the request of the German government because of lack of police. This was the first shipment between Germany and France since the September 11 suicide attacks on the United States. Anti-nuclear campaigners said it was irresponsible to transport nuclear waste when there was an increased risk of guerilla attacks.
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