Protest Halts Train With Nuclear Waste
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A heavily guarded train laden with nuclear waste from a French plant that reprocesses fuel rods from German reactors was brought to a halt in northern Germany today by activists who chained themselves to the tracks despite a massive police presence.
Police had to replace sections of track damaged as they cut free the protesters so that the train could continue to its final destination, a nuclear storage site at Gorleben on the Elbe River.
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