28/11/2011 12:11
Convoy with radioactive waste reaches Germany
A rail convoy taking radioactive waste from a French reprocessing centre to storage in northern Germany, completed the rail stage of its journey Monday, after days of fierce protests.
The train arrived at Dannenberg for unloading at 0404 GMT Monday after leaving nuclear giant Areva's rail yard at Valognes, northwestern France on Wednesday and negotiating a string of obstacles set by anti-nuclear activists, the AFP reports.
From Dannenberg rail station, its cargo of 11 containers of waste is due to be unloaded onto trucks, a process likely to take several hours.
Then it will begin the final 20-kilometre (12-mile) leg of the journey by road to the Gorleben storage facility, a former salt mine, on the River Elbe.