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GERMANY: NUCLEAR WASTE SHIPMENT BEGINS CONTROVERSIAL JOURNEY
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With thousands of police guarding its route, 60 tons of atomic waste started a controversial rail journey on Thursday to a temporary storage site in northern Germany.
Energy officials started the trip ahead of schedule to foil aggressive anti-nuclear activists, who had protested against the shipment for weeks and had planned massive demonstrations for next week which was the scheduled departure time.
Their ruse was partly successful, but hundreds of demonstrators still gathered outside the nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim in an attempt to prevent the transportation.
The hazardous cargo made its way from the nuclear power plant in Neckarwestheim to its destination, a coal plant in Wahlheim late on Thursday night.
Protesters by the hundreds, instead of the expected thousands, rushed to try to stop the transport, blocking the entrance to a nuclear power plant in southern Germany and tunnelling under a road.
Their action had delayed the transport earlier in the day, but only for a few hours until night fell.
Officials feared violence and about 30-thousand police were involved in securing the waste shipment.
They also cancelled four Thursday night soccer games of the nation's top Bundesliga so more security forces would be available - an unprecedented move which showed how worried officials were.
The activists, who oppose Germany's use of nuclear power, say the waste containers are not leakproof and claim the cargo could cause an environmental disaster on the scale of Chernobyl.
They also complain that the waste will sit indefinitely at the temporary site after its expected arrival Friday morning, because Germany has no plans yet for permanent storage.
Three previous nuclear waste transports since 1995, all to another temporary site in Lower Saxony state, were hampered by fierce protests that at times escalated into angry confrontations with police.
At a police conference in Wahlheim, police officials claimed that the problem had been solved, but admitted that the demonstrators had caused a delay.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
It has been an ongoing story for the whole day, and it resulted in delay and we had to complete the transportation when it was dark and bring it into the coal power plants
SUPER CAPTION: Klaus Schmeling, Chief of police force responsible for the transportation
Nearby, on route B27 between Neckarwestheim and Wahlheim, two activists tunnelled six yards underneath the road the truck shipment was to travel on, apparently trying to weaken it.
Police used ropes to drag out the protesters, after unchaining them from concrete slabs inside the tunnel.
Thursday's cargo from two main power plants, Neckarwestheim and Gundremmingen, was loaded in stages.
About 2 in the afternoon the train carrying three silver containers from the Gundremmingen plant started rolling north, to the town of Wahlheim, on the Neckar River.
There, it was to pick up three more containers travelling by truck from the Neckarwestheim plant and set off for the 250-mile journey north to Ahaus, in North Rhine-Westphalia state.
The transportation took longer than expected but despite the demonstration made it to its destination.
More demonstrations have been organised for Friday.
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south england and south germany contamination warning! 15 march 2012
eggenstein leopoldshafen
in operation since 1966
decommissioning begun in 1987
this is where the monitor is showing high.. the wind is blowing west from there and the pollution could be very well from
neckarwestheim 2
in operation since 1989
problems in 1991, 2004 and 2009 (last problem with cooling system and coorosion on the systems control mechanism
the reason for the purple spot??
i drove to oxford from west london and into battersea then back to west london
start time 04.30 am gmt finish time 07.30 am gmt
15 march london and oxford radiation reading n the fog!! and its hot!!
eurdep is showing catternom as red hot!! a purple spot to the south though the winds are heading north?? its possible i suppose!
eurdep has also stopped functioning again so use the links above to access the data! though the links come out on other data maps than stated for some reason.. chaged coding at eurdep? you should be able to work your way around using the technique i showed you!! (it got disabled as i was using it at 09.00 am gmt)
hinkly or bath are spewing clouds that i managed to catch of up to 0.23 microsieverts/hr on a slow rise and decent at 05.00.. lots of clouds! escpecially nearer oxford but i got up to 0.22 mcSv/h briefly in london at 07.00 am gmt
i only got below 0.14 mcSv/h when i got to clear spots in the fog (not many of them and the fog added about 0.02 or 0.03 mcSv/h, so highs in the clear were about 0.18 mcSv/h)
as you can see by the magicseaweed map the winds at 06.00 were heading west and slightly north hitting birmingham, oxford and catching london s bit less the forward projection of this contamination is due in denmark and norway as soon as the winds get it there..
i started measuring this last night at 10.30 pm gmt but the intensity has increased from 04.30 am gmt 15 march and the winds should take 24 to 36 hours! so heads up you scandinavians.. dont worry about sellafield worry about hinkly and bath and neckarwestheim 2 (which the contamination is heading due north this morning and that should be in denmark soon!)
did i say europe was getting like the set of blade runner.. and eurdep mucking us about! not good! buy a gieger if you want to embarrass the nuke companies, they are effective! so many knackered reactors so many dodgy deals!
i put some switch offs and to finish a rises up to 0.22 microsieverts/hr.. only caught the decrease but thought the activity bar interesting (the top middle screen takes 1 minute to go from left to right and describes the activity with the isotopes better
another video describing some of the isotopes released recently into eiropes air will be coming tommorrow .. still working on it!
call eurdep and get the system working fully again!!
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German nuclear waste shipment complete
(9 Nov 2010) SHOTLIST
HEADLINE: German nuclear waste shipment complete
CAPTION: A German nuclear waste shipment finally arrived at a storage facility Tuesday despite non-stop efforts by protesters to delay it. (09 November 2010)
VOICE-OVER: English
Dannenberg - 9 November 2010
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of truck used in Greenpeace anti-nuclear action
2. Police carrying Greenpeace activist out of truck
3. Media at scene
4. Police carrying Greenpeace activist out of truck
5. Wide of truck and police
Dannenberg - 9 November 2010
++DAY SHOTS++
6. Truck carrying nuclear waste leaving Dannenberg
7. Protesters with banners in front of police line
8. Wide of truck
9. Various of Greenpeace activist flying
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Tobias Riedl, Greenpeace Spokesperson:
It is a bit disappointing to see the nuclear transport now going the way. But, in the whole, it is a big success for the nuclear movement, and for Greenpeace, the last days and hours.
Near Laase, Germany - 9 November 2010
++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
11. Police scuffling with and detaining protesters trying to block convoy
12. Mid of protesters in bushes at side of road, pull out to convoy passing
13. Convoy passes revealing policeman detaining protester at side of road
Gorleben, Germany - 9 November 2010
14. Various of convoy arriving and entering site ++NOTE SOME OF THESE SHOTS ARE MUTE++
STORYLINE
Once again German police were working through the night, slowly and steadily clearing away protesters who were trying to block a shipment of nuclear waste.
Since the containers left a reprocessing plant in France Friday, demonstrators had been concentrating on stopping a train carrying the so-called CASTOR containers.
They had shifted their attention from the rails to the roads late Monday, trying to interfere as much as possible with the final leg of the journey by trucks - from a rail depot in Dannenberg to a storage facility in Gorleben.
The activists had been galvanized after the German government voted to extend the life of the country's atomic power plants beyond an original cutoff date set for 2021.
Police eventually moved all of the protesters and the trucks did get rolling away from the depot in the morning, with a heavy guard along the route. Over the whole trip, some 20-thousand police had been needed to shield the nuclear material from interference.
As the shipment was nearing its final destination, Greenpeace spokesman Tobias Riedl was expressing mixed feelings, although he pointed up what its opponents had been able to accomplish...
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There were minor scuffles in some of the towns near the storage facility.
Police were chasing small groups of protesters off of the road ahead of the convoy, and claiming that some of them were being aggressive.
But in the end the trucks did make it to the storage facility, itself a target of criticism because activists say it poses a safety risk just as the transport containers do.
Protesters vowed to be back next year when the next load of waste was due to move. They say as long as Germany puts off closing its nuclear power plants, they'll do their best to delay the shipments.
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Zum dritten Mal hat ein mit Atommüll beladenes Spezialschiff vom
stillgelegten Atomkraftwerk in Obrigheim abgelegt. Ziel ist das etwa 50 Kilometer entfernte Zwischenlager Neckarwestheim. Auch dieses Mal haben Umwelt-Aktivisten versucht, den Transport zu stoppen.
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