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Germany-France nuclear waste train Wednesday
Diet Simon - 09.12.2004 12:30
German anti-nuclear activists say another train carrying highly radioactive waste is to roll through densely populated North-Rhine Westphalia state to the French plutonium factory at La Hague during the night of December 14 to 15.
German source:  http://www.ahaus-online.de/index_cm.asp?page=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eahaus%2Donline%2Ede%2Fsites%2Fnews%2Fnews%2Ddetail%2Easp%3Fid%3D34981596
German nuclear sites
The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and mostly likely also Grohnde on the Weser River south of Hanover.
They say the likely route is Bielefeld-Hamm, Paderborn-Soest-Hamm and then Lünen-Waltrop-Recklinghausen-Duisburg. Via Münster is also a possibility.
The activists claim that every Castor casket contains significantly more radioactivity than an Hiroshima bomb.
A demonstration is planned by the railway line in Waltrop on Tuesday, 14 December, from 6 p.m. against “nuclear waste tourism through Europe”.
Waltrop also lies at the southern motorway route for the planned nuclear waste transports from Dresden to Ahaus, more than 600 km from east to west Germany. These have been postponed until after May ( http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99412.shtml).
The demo will begin at the Kiepenkerl-Brunnen in Hagelstrasse in the pedestrian mall. From there the protesters will move to the old railway station (alter Bahnhof) directly by the transport route. “We’re knotting a net against the Castors” is the motto.
Anti-nuclear initiatives from the Münsterland are supporting the demonstration, with protesters expected from within a radius of hundreds of kilometres.
The groups are protesting in particular against the silence of the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia, consisting of Social Democrats and Greens, against these nuclear transports.
German and French anti-nuclear activists are still in uproar about the death last month of 21-year-old French protester, Sébastien Briat, killed by a waste train he was trying to stop in Alsace. That train carried 12 Castors from La Hague to Gorleben, a village in north Germany, for storage, guarded by thousands of police along the way and opposed by thousands of demonstrators, especially along the last 20 kilometres by truck (see http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99450.shtml).
Germany has a contract with France to take back German waste processed in La Hague. It has a similar one with Britain for German waste treated in Sellafield.
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