Nuclear waste train resumes journey from France to Germany
Saturday, 26 November 2011
REMILLY, Nov 25, (AFP): The last train carrying reprocessed nuclear waste back from France to Germany left its overnight parking spot in eastern France Friday, steaming towards another day of violent protests.
The train, carrying 11 wagonloads of vitrified radioactive material, left a siding in the station of Remilly, just outside the town of Metz and around 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the German border, at 9.00 am (0800 GMT).
Several hundred French riot police had protected the train overnight, and around 60 German officers and a French "RAID" team-a SWAT-style special weapons squad-were on board as it resumed its journey.