Nuclear waste shipment arrives in Germany

  • 08/11/2004

A shipment of nuclear waste arrived at a disputed storage site in northern Germany, completing a journey that was marred by the death of an anti-nuclear protester in France. Police removed about 400 protesters who staged sit-ins on the two roads to the site at Gorleben early Tuesday morning, clearing the way for a convoy of trucks to carry the waste from a rail terminal in the nearby town of Dannenberg. The shipment set off late Saturday from a reprocessing plant at La Hague in northwestern France.A 21-year-old French protester died on his way to a hospital after being run over by the train in eastern France.