E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS
Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
A picture taken with a thermal imaging camera shows police (foreground) guarding the train transporting Castor containers, which carry radioactive nuclear waste, during a stop in Neunkirchen near Saarbruecken, Germany, on November 25.
The AP reports from DANNENBERG, Germany:
Alex Domanski / Reuters
Two police officers measure the radiation of a Castor container on a train during a stop in Neunkirchen on November 25.
Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at police, setting a vehicle on fire, as skirmishes intensified Friday after a shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France crossed into Germany on its way to a controversial storage site.
The clash broke out in the afternoon between about 400 riot police and 300 demonstrators in the woods outside the northern German town of Dannenberg, near the storage facility at Gorleben where the nuclear waste is being transported by train.
Activists in Germany say neither the waste containers nor the Gorleben site, a temporary storage facility, are safe.
The train carrying the annual shipment entered western Germany in the morning after delays in France, where activists damaged railtracks in an attempt to halt the cargo. Read the full story.
Sascha Schuermann / AP
Police try to secure the area where environmental activists attacked a police car near Metzingen, northern Germany, on November 25.
Sascha Schuermann / AP
A group of masked environmental activists dig underneath the railway track in an attempt to halt a train carrying nuclear waste near Metzingen, northern Germany, on Nov. 25.
Leave a Comment:
Europe should just buy more Russian CNG and the protesters would go back home. It's all about money. The French don't give a damn about the Germans and the Germans can give a good fat u launch about the frenchy.
Ken the Dem -
Sorry but do you have any idea what it would take to refine Nuclear Waste into Weaponized Plutonium? -
Just NOT going to happen -
So your statement is by large without any merit - Sorry.
You're right, but Ken the Dem's point is valid. A simple "dirty bomb" would scare the heck out of the population. People have an irrational fear of anything radioactive.
Look allot more like terrorist to me then environmentalists. Why the masks? Maybe some live buckshot would change their minds. No brain-er trying to derail a train carrying atomic waist.
This is too funny. Nuclear waste is dangerous so we're going to bring attention to our fight by making it spill in the forest. This should be on that World's Dumbest tv show. Kinda like the guys that filmed themselves driving a van into a tree to collect the insurance money. They totaled the van, didn't get the insurance $ and got arrested for fraud.
Also, this reminds me of animal rights terrorists that release animals into the wild that are; A. non-native, invasive species, and; B. hand raised, never wild, raised in captivity for multiple generations and have no idea how to exist in the wild. Makes perfect sense!!
Mining coal is bad, mining uranium is far worse. Has everyone forgotten United Nuclear Corporations disaster at Church Rock, NM where a holding pond full of radioactive water failed and dumped itself into the Rio Puerco (which runs all the way to Los Angeles, CA) and the consequent poisoning of humans and animals in the area. Or have you forgotten about the Navajo and Laguna miners who died from radiation poisoning, as did there families. Notice where uranimu is: on indigenous lands in the U.S., South Africa, Australia. Notice who is expendable. It's not economic wellness that is in jeopardy if nuclearization continues, it's the survival of the planet.
If the USA is so broke, how does it manage to find billions to build a new nuclear pit processing plant in Los Alamos, NM? If nuclear is the way to go, then fine, we'll blow ourselves up with the sanity of weapons of mass destruction.
It's amazing how a nation full of zombies can parrot the nuke speak of propaganda knowing its danger, and have little imagination to look at the alternatives that ARE viable. Idiocy is the rule of the day; self-shackled people will ignore reality as soon as the news bites fade. So, let's pat ourselves on the back for doing the 80 % of the master's work to enslave ourselves.
Damn.
That explains all the strange folks in Southern California.
If it's not one thing, it's another thing in our world. Just might be a law against attempting to derail a train. I'll stick to putting a penny on a rail.
What a great way to protect the environment: Derail a train carrying nuclear waste?
These people are terrorists, plain and simple, and they need to be shot for the betterment and enlightenment of others, really . . .
Really! :-o
If the French have had more experience storing and processing more nuclear waste safely than anyone else on the planet, why are they shipping their nuclear waste to Germany? Apparently their "safely" storing of nuclear waste entails storing it in another country and far enough away so that it is no longer their problem.
it's not their nuclear waste. It's Germany's. It gets reprocessed in France and then goes back to Germany for disposal.
Why don't they just start shipping all this cr-ap to sites like the one in Russia or Japan?
Those parts of the world are already totality scr-ewed
Just saying you know?
Good luck.
Texas is an apt destination. Too bad the human pigs that inhabit the state turned it into the @!$%# hole that it is.
Dump some poison gas on them.
Dumb asses.
You are going to derail a train carrying nuclear waste?
And if you do derail it (like it matters the containers are almost indestructible) who's back yard will you derail it in?
Bet those folks will be happy with you.
This is an ongoing and standard procedure.
It comes out of the ground and goes back in the ground.
There are people who know a lot more than the "protesters" who do this work.
Nuclear is here to stay, get used to it.
France dumps much of its nuclear waste off the coast of Somalia, thereby poluting and destroying the livelihood of Somali fisherman, turning them into PIRATES.
************************************* *************************** ************** ********
THAT"S THE PROBLEM WITH NUCLEAR !!!!! THE WASTE. ********************************************************
I have no doubt that they're also secretly shipping waste (nuclear & toxic) to other countries! Recently we had a container ship ground off the North Island coast of New Zealand, and guess what has just been discovered as they've been removing the containers??? HAZARDOUS MATERIALS that were NOT listed on the manifest!!!
GRRRR!
Okay, I really have to clear up some things. First, the nuclear waste originated in Germany and was brought to France to get "recycled", thereby creating more nuclear waste. This waste is now transported back to Germany. The Molotow cocktails were not thrown at people but used to burn down 2 empty police cars.
Looks like they are trying to derail a train carrying nuclear waste... wtf?? Now that is playing it safe! What is next... burning down a marihuana plantation?
The poor earth. Humans have no sense of connection to it. They usurp all of its energy, and devastate the environment with the energy by-products. The protesters are wildly correct.
Awful as it sounds, an example must be set in a case like this. Zero tolerance for interfering with transport of this type of material, just hose them with smg fire, and make no apologies. Anyone who even "appears" to be interfering will be shot at first, then questioned... we just can't take the risk of hoping it's the "good guys" who are trying to burn the cops and potentially cause a major catastrophe... and not a terrorist group. (Same dif in this case... knuckle heads).
If the spent fuel is still hazardous and needs protected, then it shouldn't even been manufactured in the first place. Nuclear waste may create more hazards then we even know about today. If it leaches into the water tables, we are in trouble. I don't know the answer, nor does anyone else at this point in time know just what the real problems might be but I assume we have never really been told. One must wonder why one country would ship their waste to another country.
I don't Blame them. If they have not found safe way to dispose of it why have it go into another country?By now they should know what works. AKA a volcano or something Some Bacteria eat oil some may eat this too? who knows I just don't want it either.