Photo: DPAFour activists from an anti-nuclear energy group have managed to temporarily prevent a boat carrying nuclear waste from carrying its cargo down the river Neckar in southern Germany. The activists, from the group Robin Wood, abseiled from a bridge over the river in the area of Bad Wimpfen on Wednesday, holding a banner which read “prevent rather than postpone.”Their target was the first ever shipment of nuclear waste to be transported along a German river. The boat carrying the radioactive cargo left the disused nuclear facility at Obrigheim, Baden-Württemberg, on Wednesday morning. “Specially trained police forces are on the way to the scene to get rid of the demonstrators,” a police spokesperson said. The nuclear waste is being brought to a temporary storage facility 50 kilometres downstream.

Source: The Local June 28, 2017 13:18 UTC