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...German convoy reached the nuclear storage facility at Gorleben last week after a 1,400-km journey mostly by rail from La Hague in northern France, where German nuclear waste had been sent for reprocessing. The train carried six 100-ton, cast-iron casks designed to transport nuclear material safely. Each cask contained 28 canisters of nuclear waste at temperatures of around 400?C. They will remain in an interim storage facility for between 20 and 30 years, so that the waste can cool down to a more manageable 200?C, when it can be permanently stored in a mine...
...GERMANY Nuclear Train Still on Track A train carrying 60 tons of radioactive waste from a reprocessing plant in northern France to a nuclear storage facility in Gorleben, Germany, was held up for two days as thousands of anti-nuclear protesters clashed with police in an effort to stop the shipment. The protests ended early Friday when the six waste containers were delivered to the Gorleben dump...
...state of Lower Saxony. Social Democrat Gerhard Schroder, a candidate for minister-president, calls the vote a "people's referendum on nuclear power." Feelings on the issue are running high. Earlier this month, riot police battled demonstrators protesting the construction of a radioactive waste dump in the village of Gorleben...
...ripples from Three Mile Island are reaching Europe's shores, giving much new force to the antinuclear movement. The West German government two weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
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