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Protester dies under atomic train
A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany.
The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France.
The train had already been delayed for two hours while police cut free two other protesters who had chained themselves to a section of track.
The train was carrying nuclear waste being sent back to Germany after reprocessing in northern France.
Paramedics offered the protester emergency treatment and rushed him to hospital for surgery.
He died before reaching a nearby hospital, the Associated Press reported.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3990641.stm
nti-nuclear activist died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France's SNCF railway operator said.
"The driver noticed a group of people sitting on the tracks. Some of them got up. He pulled the emergency brake, but one of the people remained sitting, and one of his legs was cut off and he has died," a spokeswoman for SNCF said.
The accident happened close to the town of Avricourt in eastern France in a section where the railway tracks curve through the forest, the SNCF said.
The train had left Valognes in northern France on Saturday and was heading to the storage facility in the German village of Gorleben.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6736408
About 12 miles up the rails in the town of Laneuveville-devant-Nancy, police intervened to cut the chains that two protesters from activist group Sortir du Nucleaire (Out of Nuclear) had used to lock themselves to the tracks, officials from railway authority SNCF said.
The train was delayed for about two hours, before continuing its route from a reprocessing plant in western France to a rail terminal in the German town of Danneberg. It was carrying 12 containers of waste destined for a storage site in nearby Gorleben.
At least 4,500 people demonstrated Saturday at the radioactive waste way station in Gorleben, part of regular protests over concerns that the nuclear material is unsafe.
Spent fuel from Germany's nuclear power plants is sent to France and Britain for reprocessing under contracts that oblige Germany to take back the waste.
Some previous shipments of radioactive waste to Gorleben have drawn thousands of protesters and led to clashes with police.
The demonstrations have faded, however, as the German government last year embarked on a plan to phase out nuclear power altogether and close its remaining 18 nuclear power plants by about 2020.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4601235,00.html
The train was carrying nuclear waste being sent back to Germany after reprocessing in northern France.
Paramedics offered the protester emergency treatment and rushed him to hospital for surgery.
He died before reaching a nearby hospital, the Associated Press reported.
Read More
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3990641.stm
nti-nuclear activist died in France on Sunday after having a leg cut off by a train transporting nuclear waste to Germany, France's SNCF railway operator said.
"The driver noticed a group of people sitting on the tracks. Some of them got up. He pulled the emergency brake, but one of the people remained sitting, and one of his legs was cut off and he has died," a spokeswoman for SNCF said.
The accident happened close to the town of Avricourt in eastern France in a section where the railway tracks curve through the forest, the SNCF said.
The train had left Valognes in northern France on Saturday and was heading to the storage facility in the German village of Gorleben.
More
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6736408
About 12 miles up the rails in the town of Laneuveville-devant-Nancy, police intervened to cut the chains that two protesters from activist group Sortir du Nucleaire (Out of Nuclear) had used to lock themselves to the tracks, officials from railway authority SNCF said.
The train was delayed for about two hours, before continuing its route from a reprocessing plant in western France to a rail terminal in the German town of Danneberg. It was carrying 12 containers of waste destined for a storage site in nearby Gorleben.
At least 4,500 people demonstrated Saturday at the radioactive waste way station in Gorleben, part of regular protests over concerns that the nuclear material is unsafe.
Spent fuel from Germany's nuclear power plants is sent to France and Britain for reprocessing under contracts that oblige Germany to take back the waste.
Some previous shipments of radioactive waste to Gorleben have drawn thousands of protesters and led to clashes with police.
The demonstrations have faded, however, as the German government last year embarked on a plan to phase out nuclear power altogether and close its remaining 18 nuclear power plants by about 2020.
More
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4601235,00.html
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