10s The CASTOR (Cask for Storage and Transport of Radioactive material) nuclear waste transport reaches its final destination at the interim storage facility in Gorleben, Germany, after the longest journey ever in the transport’s history. Over a period of around 92 hours the nuclear transport faces more resistance and peaceful direct action from the local population and their supporters than ever before, demanding that Germany confirm its commitment to a nuclear phase-out.
images 1 and 2 Thermography images showing in ‘red’ the heat emitted by nuclear waste transport containers in the railway station of Valognes, bound for storage in Gorleben, Germany. The CASTOR is a train convoy carrying eleven 100-tonne containers of radioactive waste © Greenpeace images 3 to 5 Greenpeace nuclear experts carry out radiation measurements near the CASTOR train railway line, only meters away from residential housing © Gordon Welters / Greenpeace images 6 and 7 Greenpeace activists who had fixed themselves to the railway line, attempting to stop the nuclear waste transport from La Hague to the intermediate storage in Gorleben, Germany, are removed by police © Martin Storz / Greenpeace image 8 Police officers at the site where Greenpeace activists are protesting against the train taking the CASTOR nuclear waste transport from La Hague to the intermediate storage in Gorleben, Germany © Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace
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