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German nuclear waste load transfers from rail to road after protests
Nov 28, 2011, 8:42 GMT
Dannenberg, Germany - A nuclear waste delivery to a storage site in northern Germany entered its final stage Monday, as the cargo of spent fuel rods was loaded from trains onto lorries following disruptions by thousands of protesters.
It could take up to 15 hours to transfer the 11 tightly sealed containers onto lorries, which will complete the final 20 kilometres of the journey to the nuclear storage site, at Gorleben.
This year's transport - the last of the annual deliveries of reprocessed nuclear fuel from the French city of Le Havre - has been accompanied by more protest and stronger police intervention than in previous years.
The journey from France has so far taken 109 hours, slowed by demonstrators who oppose nuclear power in general or fear that the Gorleben storage site is not safe.
On Sunday, police had to forcibly remove thousands of protesters from railway tracks.
Germany is legally committed to closing all nuclear power stations by 2022.
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