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AM – Protest to stop nuclear waste in its tracks

Protest to stop nuclear waste in its tracks

ABC Local Radio AM –  11 November , 2008 

Reporter: Stephanie Kennedy

Protestors have spent the last four days trying to disrupt the train’s journey from a French reprocessing plant. The nuclear cargo is destined for a waste storage facility.

Police used water cannons, tear gas and batons to break up the protestors; and riot officers carried them away one by one.

Germany has no reprocessing facilities of its own.

So it has to send large quantities of used fuel to France and Britain for treatment. Once it’s been processed Germany has a legal obligation to take back the treated waste. waste………………WOLFGANG KOENIG(translated): In the beginning we underestimated the problem, we thought the disposal of nuclear waste could be managed with relatively simple technological solutions. It was dumped into the sea, it was stored at unsafe locations and only in recent years we recognised how difficult it is to store especially the especially highly radioactive heat-generating waste………….The protestors have vowed to continue their actions until the cargo of radioactive waste reaches the storage facility.

AM – Protest to stop nuclear waste in its tracks

November 11, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized