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Antinuclear demonstrators are hardly new to Germany. In fact, this is the second such stop-the-transport protest this year. But since Sept. 11 the demonstrators have a new argument: that the spent nuclear waste, moving slowly by truck or rail, provides an easy target for terrorists...
...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...
...protesters are playing the terrorism card. "Nuclear transport is always dangerous, but in this situation it shouldn't be done," said Greenpeace's Teske. "The casks wouldn't survive a plane crash." That case was boosted at a special session on nuclear terrorism held by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna this month. There experts warned that the threat of sabotage on spent-fuel nuclear transport was being underestimated...
...long term, the U.S. can and should do more. The next four decades will see an enormous demand for oil from developing economies like China and India. Energy conservation and the development of new transportation technologies--68% of all petroleum consumed in the U.S. is used in transport--are desirable for all kinds of reasons. One of the most important is this: such policies would enable the U.S. to talk honestly to Saudi Arabia about the ways that its society might best develop. Both countries would benefit...
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