A state official on Sunday announced new plans for an atomic waste transport this year, but said it wouldn't take place until after next fall's national elections.
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Part of the line which served the station is converted to the main access road as a means of transporting atomic waste from nearby Dungeness nuclear power station.
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They say the 60 tons of atomic waste to be transported is toxic enough to create an environmental catastrophe on the scale of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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"Moving atomic waste thousands of kilometers across Europe in such a heated situation is playing with fire, " said Veit Burger, a spokesman for the environmental group Greenpeace.
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A team of scientists from the Department of Energy Wednesday strongly backed the recently proposed idea that atomic wastes buried deep underground might erupt in a nuclear explosion.
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On Sunday, about 3, 000 demonstrators marched to the Neckarwestheim power plant, blowing whistles, waving banners and demanding the transport of atomic wastes to Gorleben no longer be allowed.
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Police used water cannons and dogs to hold back thousands of anti-nuclear demonstrators Friday as a train loaded with atomic waste neared a temporary storage site in northern Germany.
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A shipment of atomic waste from three German power stations was heading toward a reprocessing plant in France, crossing the border late Wednesday after repeated blockades by anti-nuclear protesters.
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During the Cold War, the Soviet Union conducted scores of nuclear tests on islands north of the Russian mainland, and dumped atomic waste and whole reactors into arctic waters.
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About 30, 000 police guarded a train transporting 60 tons of atomic waste through Germany on Friday, taking about 450 anti-nuclear activists who tried to stop it into custody.
