Greenpeace blocks Dutch nuclear waste train
Date: 20-Jun-02
Country: NETHERLANDS
Dutch police arrested four Greenpeace campaigners after they blocked a railway line near the southern port city of Flushing to prevent a train carrying waste from a local plant reaching the Cogema reprocessing facility in Le Havre.
One activist chained himself to a metal pole under the railway tracks, a police spokesman said. Police removed the protesters as the nuclear waste transport waited at a nearby station.
Greenpeace frequently targets trains carrying nuclear waste from the Netherlands' only commercial nuclear power plant at Borssele. The government plans to close it next year but the owner, utility EPZ, is lobbying for it to stay open until 2013.
On Tuesday, Greenpeace activists delayed a train with German nuclear waste travelling through France.