Protesters halt N-convoy

Published November 22, 2005

DANNENBERG (Germany) Nov 21: Anti-nuclear protesters repeatedly halted a controversial shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from France on Monday bound for a temporary storage facility in northern Germany. The activists said the train with 12 containers carrying more than 170 tonnes of treated nuclear power plant waste was stopped in the city of Goettingen for about 30 minutes and then later in the village of Bienenbuettel en route to the Gorleben site.

Eighteen demonstrators were briefly detained in Goettingen.—AFP

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