Massive protest in Germany highlights anti-nuclear feeling

What has made this particular demonstration so explosive is the coincidence of this transport of nuclear waste with the government’s decision to overturn former legislation aimed at phasing out nuclear power by around 2020.

Mounting disappointments boost anti-nuclear protests Deutsche Welle, Ben Knight, 08.11.2010 “……..The ongoing civil disobedience campaign against a train delivery of nuclear waste to a storage facility in Gorleben is being reported as one of the biggest of its kind ever in Germany.

Up to 17,000 policemen, at a cost of up to 50 million euros ($70 million), were used over the weekend to keep an estimated 35,000 people from blocking the path of the train, and more demonstrators – along with local farmers – are continuing to arrive to block the path of the road convoy as it continues its journey……

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative coalition of Christian Democrats and the pro-business Free Democrats, recently passed a bill through parliament allowing nuclear power stations to remain open another 12 years…….

Mounting disappointments boost anti-nuclear protests | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 08.11.2010

November 9, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | uranium | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium

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