French nuclear waste train enters Germany
Saturday November 26, 2011 08:17:40 AM,
IANS
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Berlin: A French train
loaded with 150 tonnes of reprocessed nuclear waste crossed into
Germany Friday, heading for a controversial radioactive waste
storage facility in a small German town hundreds of kilometers
away.
This was the last of 12 shipments of nuclear waste from French
nuclear reactors to Gorleben in northeastern Germany in recent
years, as the contract between the two sides are not expected to
be extended after it expires this year.
Tens of thousands people are expected to demonstrate against the
shipment in and around Gorleben, Xinhua reported.
Germany has decided to close its all 17 nuclear plants by 2022,
marking Germany the first major industrial power abandoning such
plants.
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