Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Germany amid protests

New York Times : To reach a storage facility in northern Germany, 123 tons of German nuclear waste that had been reprocessed in France had to cross Germany by train. Four thousand protesters, including tractor-driving farmers, blocked the route, delaying the train by three days. As the New York Times‘s Michael Slackman writes, the train’s eventual arrival on Monday has not settled the debate within Germany about what to do with the waste from the country’s 17 nuclear power stations or, more fundamentally, whether the country should have any nuclear power stations at all.