Police in Germany say they have cleared thousands of protesters who were trying to block a trainload of nuclear waste.
Protesters had blocked the tracks near the site in northern Germany where the spent nuclear fuel is to be stored. The 150 tonnes of uranium, originally from German nuclear plants, is being moved in 11 containers from Normandy, France, where it was reprocessed. It is the last of 12 such shipments from France because of a German move away from nuclear power. Reports said 1,300 people had been detained following the clearing of the protest.
A rescuer holds the unchained hand of an anti-nuclear protester being removed from the railway tracks before the arrival of the transport train in Hitzacker. The transport has to stop again and again because of the blockades - it takes longer than any such transport did before. It started on Wednesday, 4pm in Valognes, France and has to make 1,200 kilometres. Now it is on its final 20 kilometres (12 miles)
Anti-nuclear protesters in sleeping bags lay on the road to the final destination, Gorleben. The police expect a difficult last stage of the transport of the 11 nuclear waste containers. On the final leg the containers will be carried by trucks
One of the eleven Castor (Cask for Storage and Transport of Radioactive material) nuclear waste containers is seen behind a police ribbon and barbed Nato wire at Dannenberg on the route to Gorleben. A castor is six metres long, the diameter is more than two metres, and it weighs 117 tonnes
Anti-nuclear activists of the environmental group Greenpeace measure the radioactivity of the castor containers while they are moved from the train onto the low-loaders by a crane in Dannenberg. The 11 shipped castor containers contain the radioactivity of 44 Fukushima disasters, Greenpeace said
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