Sellafield radioactive waste arrived in Germany. Activists protested against its transport and storage.
The ship transporting radioactive waste from Great Britain to Germany on Tuesday despite the protests of activists anchored in the port of Nordenham. This is the first of the eight such transfer, TASR reports based on DPA report.
Nuclear waste comes from processed fuel cells from the eliminated Sellafield nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom. He came to Germany on Tuesday around 06.00.
The waste is to be trained to a temporary storage facility in the former Isar nuclear power plant in Bavaria. Although Germany began to gradually end the use of nuclear energy after a crash in Fukushima, Japan in 2011, it has not yet clearly determined the place and conditions of storing radioactive waste.
In recent days, activists have protested the transport of nuclear waste from the UK to Germany. The group called “Stop Castor” on Tuesday organized a meeting directly in Nordenham and other events are to be held in Bremen and Göttingen. Castor is an English acronym based on the name of a special container for storing and transporting radioactive material.
