Thousand protest at nuclear waste

Berlin - About 1,000 protesters demonstrated yesterday outside a German nuclear power station due to ship waste to France this…

Berlin - About 1,000 protesters demonstrated yesterday outside a German nuclear power station due to ship waste to France this week, police said.

The government said last month it was lifting a ban on nuclear waste shipments which it imposed two years ago after a scandal over radiation leaks from transport containers.

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