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Nuclear waste transport stopped en route to German airport
Diet Simon - 18.12.2006 12:56
Activists of the Saxony Anti-Nuclear Alliance and from the Gorleben area managed to stop a consignment of nuclear waste for ten minutes as it was taken to an airport for consignment to Moscow.
It happened early Monday morning. The consignment of fuel elements and fuel rods was from the Rossendorf research facility near Dresden and was destined for the Scientific Research Institute Podolsk near Moscow.
The transport consisted of 18 special containers with 200 kilogrammes of highly enriched uranium and 100 kilogrammes of low-enriched uranium.
25 activists managed to get onto the transport route with vehicles to stop the consignment, which was guarded by more than 400 police.
After the interruption the consignment was detoured through a residential area.
The demonstrators protested against the risky air transportation posing an incalculable risk to people and the environment and demanded immediate closure of all nuclear facilities.
The federal radiation protection agency BFS says since 2003 there have been several flights in Germany carrying uranium.
Earlier activist groups had called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to stop the flight – see  http://indymedia.nl/nl/2006/12/41373.shtml.
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