Nuclear Waste on Way to UK

Nuclear Waste on Way to UK

Oct 01 - Belfast Telegraph

THREE containers loaded with nuclear waste left a power plant in southern Germany under heavy security early today, bound for Cumbria's Sellafield reprocessing plant.

Police said about 35 protesters tried to block the shipment as it headed by road from the plant at Neckarwestheim, in the southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, to a nearby depot to be loaded onto a train for the journey to Britain.

But the demonstrators were quickly cleared from the road and the shipment was able to continue, police said.

About 700 officers were in place to secure the transport, carrying 21 spent fuel rods, and demonstrations along the route had been banned.

The last shipment of German waste to Sellafield, in April, was marked by a sit-down protest at Neckarwestheim.

Germany sends spent nuclear fuel from 19 power plants abroad for reprocessing under contracts that oblige the country to take back the resulting waste for storage.

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