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SCHILTIGHEIM, France - Anti-nuclear activists set off rockets and chained themselves to rail tracks this week in a bid to stop a German train carrying nuclear waste from crossing France.
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A Reuters reporter in the town of Schiltigheim in eastern France, close to the German border, said several protesters managed to halt the train briefly at about 1900 GMT before police quickly stepped in and cut them free from the tracks. Two people were arrested. The train, which is bound for a nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield in northwestern England, continued on its journey across northern France after a 15-minute delay. It is carrying two containers of nuclear waste from the northern German plant of Kleinensiel. Earlier, German police detained about 50 anti-nuclear protesters who forced the train to stop several times by sitting on railway tracks. Convoys transporting nuclear waste for reprocessing or back to its country of origin afterwards are frequently targeted by anti-nuclear protesters.
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REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
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