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Nuclear waste arrives at German dump | Herald Sun

Nuclear waste arrives at German dump

herald sun November 12, 2008

A RADIOACTIVE waste shipment arrived at a German dump today after the biggest anti-nuclear protests in years, pointing up the fierce opposition to reversing Berlin’s phase-out of atomic energy.

The protests, the biggest since 2001 with thousands of police deployed over the weekend, caused the 123 tonnes of nuclear waste to arrive around 20 hours late at the Gorleben disposal site in northern Germany………………………

Earlier this year it emerged that water had leaked into another storage site, at Asse in northern Germany, leading to radioactive contamination in the local area in what was a “catastrophe,” Mr Doerges said.

“For years the public has been lied to. For years we had radioactive contamination around Asse and no one was told … Nuclear power cannot be the answer to the climate problem,” Till Doerges from protest organisers x-tausendmal quer said.

Nuclear waste arrives at German dump | Herald Sun

November 12, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized