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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011
Anti-nuke anger flies off the rails DAVID VINCENT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vehicles torched, tear gas fired amid row over ‘radioactive train’ The shadow of Japan’s nuclear disaster loomed over violence in northern France yesterday. Riot police fired tear gas at anti-nuclear protesters in a Normandy field and vehicles were set aflame. Activists damaged a railway and delayed the departure of a train carrying recycled uranium to Germany. “Stop This Radioactive Train,” read banners waved by protesters. The train finally left the depot at Valognes, but was expected to meet protests and resistance all along its journey from a nuclearwaste-processing site on the English Channel to a storage site in northern Germany. Protesters point to the disaster at Japan’s Fukushi-
Europe’s stance Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has decided to shut all Germany’s nuclear plants by 2022. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his commitment to nuclear power. France is more reliant on nuclear power than any other country, with the majority of its electricity coming from atomic reactors.
ma nuclear plant after a tsunami earlier this year as an urgent reason to abandon atomic power. In Germany, police were preparing a big security operation to protect the nuclear waste shipment.
Riot police face protesters at a burning barricade in Normandy, France, yesterday. Anti-nuclear activists were trying to head off the departure of a train carrying recycled uranium to Germany.
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