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February 9, 2012
Gorleben
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Nuke waste convoy leaves hundreds hurt
National: 29 Nov 11
The nuclear waste convoy which has spent the last few days making its way from France to Germany reached its destination on Monday night, leaving around 100 police officers and more than 350 protesters injured.
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Nuke waste train arrives despite protests
National: 28 Nov 11
The train taking radioactive waste from a French reprocessing centre to storage in northern Germany completed the rail stage of its journey early on Monday morning, after days of fierce protests.
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Berlin-Hamburg train route re-opens after fire
National: 27 Nov 11
Trains are running once again between Berlin and Hamburg after workers cleared the rail lines Saturday evening following a suspected arsonist fire on the tracks.
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Police clear protestors from nuke train path
National: 27 Nov 11
Police early Sunday began to clear thousands of anti-nuclear protestors from railroad tracks to allow the passage of a train carrying radioactive waste from France for to a storage facility in Lower Saxony.
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Nuclear waste train trundles towards protests
National: 26 Nov 11
Thousands of anti-nuclear protestors were awaiting the arrival of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France to its destination in northern Germany Saturday.
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First clashes as atomic waste train rolls onward
National: 25 Nov 11
Two police cars have been set on fire with Molotov cocktails as protesters attempt to block a train carrying nuclear waste from France to a depot in central Germany.
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Baton-swinging cops in anti-nuke showdown
National: 23 Nov 11
Baton-wielding French police battled anti-nuclear protesters Wednesday as the last convoy of German nuclear waste to be treated in France was prepared for its journey home.
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Police brace for huge nuclear waste protests
National: 17 Nov 11
The police will deploy 19,000 officers to secure a shipment of German atomic waste from France to Lower Saxony next week amid expectations of huge anti-nuclear protests.
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Gorleben protests reawake as nuclear lobby work revealed
Politics: 30 Oct 11
As around 6,000 people protested around Germany against a shipment of nuclear waste due to go to the Gorleben storage site next month, a newspaper published a dossier documenting the nuclear industry’s lobbying work.
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Greens unite behind government nuke plan
Politics: 25 Jun 11
Germany's Green Party decided on Saturday to back the government's nuclear exit plan despite an impassioned debate which threatened to split the country's strong opposition party.
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Nuclear waste transport crosses French border
National: 15 Dec 10
Five weeks after massive protests stalled the delivery of radioactive waste from France to Germany’s controversial Gorleben facility, another convoy began a similar trip on Wednesday. It is expected to cross the border around noon.
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Cancer spikes around Asse nuke dump
Politics: 26 Nov 10
In the wake of reports that the community around the Asse atomic waste dump in Lower Saxony has suffered a rise in cancer cases, authorities insisted Friday the illnesses were not caused by nuclear contamination.
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The Greening of Berlin
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Nov 10
The popular Greens aim to take over Berlin's city hall in 2011. But Roger Boyes, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, warns they must implement the necessary “eco-dictatorship” on a tight budget in the debt-ridden capital.
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Body of anti-nuclear protestor found in stream
Society: 22 Nov 10
Nearly two weeks after a massive anti-nuclear protest in Lower Saxony ended, the body of a demonstrator has been found drowned in a stream, police announced late on Sunday.
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French police deployed at anti-nuclear protests
National: 13 Nov 10
A row has broken out over the use of French police officers in Germany during last week’s demonstrations against the nuclear waste transport to Gorleben. Meanwhile northern ports cities could refuse to let new waste transports through.
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Hesse suggests searching for alternative nuclear waste sites
National: 12 Nov 10
Germany must search for alternative storage facilities for nuclear waste in the event that the site at Gorleben is deemed unsafe, Hesse's state premier Volker Bouffier said Friday.
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German media roundup: Split by the atom
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Nov 10
The latest nuclear waste transport to Lower Saxony’s Gorleben storage facility may have sparked angry protests, but newspapers in The Local’s media roundup Tuesday were split on the import of the anti-atomic movement.
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Nuclear waste reaches depot as blockade ends
National: 9 Nov 10
A convoy of 123 tonnes of radioactive German nuclear waste finished its painstaking journey Tuesday morning and reached its destination at the Gorleben storage site after three days of blockades by determined demonstrators.
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Police and activists gear up for nuclear showdown
National: 8 Nov 10
German police and protesters geared up Monday for the final journey of a shipment of 123 tonnes of nuclear waste that drew a wave of angry protests during its much-delayed trip from France.
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Police clear anti-nuclear blockade overnight
National: 8 Nov 10
A train carrying over 100 tonnes of nuclear waste completed its journey to Germany, setting up a final showdown between police and protestors Monday before the dangerous cargo is deposited underground.
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Protests heat up along nuclear waste route
National: 7 Nov 10
Police clashed Sunday with activists trying to halt a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany as protests against the shipment turned increasingly violent.
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Nuclear waste train enters Germany
National: 6 Nov 10
A train carrying what activists claim is "the most radioactive ever" cargo of nuclear waste ran the gauntlet of hundreds of protesters Saturday as it crossed the Rhine from France to Germany.
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Protest blocks nuclear waste train headed for Germany
National: 5 Nov 10
Anti-nuclear protestors chained themselves to train tracks in France on Friday, blocking a nuclear waste delivery billed by opponents as the “most radioactive in history” on its way to Germany.
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Nuclear power protestors mobilize around Germany
National: 23 Oct 10
Over a hundred anti-nuclear power demonstrations are expected to take place throughout Germany on Saturday, mostly directed at the transport of radioactive waste to the controversial storage site near Gorleben.
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Citizens alienated by politics taking to streets for single issues
Politics: 17 Oct 10
Germans are increasingly taking to the streets in order make their point on political matters which might otherwise be considered best debated in places such as parliament or local government.
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Police expecting riots to greet next radioactive waste transport
Society: 16 Oct 10
Police are expecting massive demonstrations and riots next month when a transport of 11 containers of highly-radioactive waste is due to be brought from France to Gorleben, Lower Saxony.
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Masked person throws 'pie' at Trittin
Politics: 23 Sep 10
Green party parliamentary group leader Jürgen Trittin fell victim to a pie attack during a podium discussion in Hannover on Wednesday night. City police have no leads on the masked perpetrator.
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Gas could threaten nuclear waste depot
National: 15 Sep 10
The former geological surveyor for the controversial nuclear waste depot Gorleben warned Wednesday that there could be dangerous gas deposits lurking beneath the old salt dome caverns.
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Nuclear extension sparks Austrian meltdown
Politics: 7 Sep 10
Germany’s plan to extend the lives of its nuclear reactors has upset neighbouring Austria, where a environmental official has warned that a reactor near the border poses clear “safety risks.”
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120,000 take stand against nuclear power
National: 25 Apr 10
Around 120,000 people formed a 120-kilometre human chain on Saturday linking the nuclear power stations Krümmel in Schleswig Holstein and Brünsbuttel in Hamburg, in the country's biggest anti-nuclear demonstration for years.
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Coalition mulls extending nuclear phaseout to 2050
National: 26 Mar 10
The German government is reportedly considering extending the scheduled end to nuclear energy until 2050, though it’s not clear whether some of the country's power plants can continue operating that long.
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Röttgen could strip authority of nuclear waste storage duties
National: 16 Mar 10
German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen is reportedly considering stripping the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) of its nuclear waste duties to expedite storage at the controversial Gorleben site.
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Röttgen says Germany can't halt nuclear exit
Politics: 25 Nov 09
Retreat from nuclear energy can no longer be halted, Germany’s new Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen told daily Bild on Wednesday.
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Coalition infuriates Greens with nuclear power compromise
Politics: 18 Oct 09
The negotiating government coalition partners seem to have agreed on the outlines of a future energy policy – with nuclear power as a key component to bridge the time until renewable sources can supply what is needed.
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Greens vow to oppose U-turn on German nuclear phaseout
Society: 28 Sep 09
Green groups vowed on Monday to hit the streets if Chancellor Angela Merkel's victorious new coalition keeps its campaign promise to reverse Germany's scheduled exit from nuclear power.
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Schavan withholds nuclear energy study
Science & Technology: 16 Sep 09
Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan has been withholding a study on nuclear energy that contains results too controversial to reveal ahead of Germany's election, Financial Times Deutschland revealed on Wednesday.
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Germany aims to build 40 offshore wind farms
Science & Technology: 14 Sep 09
German Transportation Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee on Monday announced plans to build 40 new offshore wind farms that would create 30,000 jobs.
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New papers show Gorleben nuclear site records were doctored
National: 10 Sep 09
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) said Thursday that Germany's controversial nuclear waste storage facility in Gorleben cannot be considered as a permanent depot after new allegations about its safety emerged this week.
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50,000 join anti-nuclear power march in Berlin
National: 5 Sep 09
Some 50,000 anti-nuclear protestors demonstrated in Berlin on Saturday against Germany possibly reversing a decision to abandon atomic energy and extending the life of its nuclear power plants.
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Demonstrators scale Reichstag façade for anti-nuke protest
National: 1 Sep 09
Demonstrators from the environmentalist group Greenpeace on Tuesday scaled the large columns on the façade of the Reichstag building, home to the German parliament, to attach an anti-nuclear energy banner.
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Nuclear waste authority says Germany needs new storage site
National: 26 Aug 09
The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) said Wednesday that Germany needs to look for a new nuclear waste depot because the current Gorleben facility has “many birth defects.”
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Gorleben nuclear storage site developed illegally
Society: 28 May 09
The salt dome at the Gorleben nuclear waste depot was developed illegally to be permanent storage facility, according to an internal assessment by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS).
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'Unbending squirrel' blocks nuclear train delivery
Society: 28 Apr 09
A French anti-nuclear activist nicknamed the "unbending squirrel" managed to stop a train carrying uranium from a German processing plant in spectacular fashion, police said on Tuesday.
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Siemens looks abroad to tap new interest in nuclear power
Business & Money: 5 Mar 09
Siemens has become the latest German firm to up its game and tap into the renewed interest in nuclear power being seen all across the world - but not in the company's own backyard.
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Nuclear waste transport reaches Gorleben
National: 11 Nov 08
Several tonnes of German nuclear waste finally arrived at the Gorleben storage centre on Tuesday morning in what police called a smooth delivery after massive delays caused by three days of protests by activists.
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Anti-nuke activists continue transport blockades
National: 10 Nov 08
The progress of several tonnes of nuclear waste being transported a final 20 kilometres to Germany's Gorleben storage facility was hindered by protesting environmentalists on Monday.
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Police beat back anti-nuke protestors
National: 9 Nov 08
Police wielding truncheons beat back environmentalists Sunday trying to block a train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from western France to a dump in Germany.
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German police bust violent anti-nuclear protests
National: 8 Nov 08
Police broke up a demonstration by anti-nuclear activists in Lower Saxony late on Friday after protestors hurled bottles, eggs and firecrackers at the cops and set fire to barricades, injuring an officer.
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Gabriel warns anti-nuclear waste activists against violence
Politics: 3 Nov 08
Germany’s Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel has warned anti-nuclear activists against violence when demonstrating against nuclear waste transports to take place this week.
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Germany must rethink its permanent nuclear storage
Analysis & Opinion: 3 Sep 08
Following Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s scathing criticism of the Asse nuclear facility this week, Heinz Smital from Greenpeace argues Germany must rethink its plans for the permanent storage of atomic waste.
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German atomic waste transport cancelled for 2009
National: 29 Apr 08
Transport of radioactive waste to a storage facility near the German town of Gorleben from a reprocessing plant in France has been cancelled for the coming year, German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Tuesday.
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