BERLIN, June 22 Anti-nuclear activists have staged a protest on the domed roof of a power plant in north-western Germany.
Police say about 50 people took part in the protest that started early on Monday at the Unterweser plant, about 20 of them scaling the 200-foot dome. Officers escorted them from the premises in the afternoon.
Greenpeace spokeswoman Karoline Krenzien says the group was protesting the “deadly risk” from older nuclear plants. Protesters unfurled a banner reading “nuclear power damages Germany.”
Unterweser went into service in 1978.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's “grand coalition” government has stuck with its centre-left predecessor's decision to phase out Germany's 17 nuclear plants by 2021 but the plan has caused repeated political friction.—AP
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