Uranium transport started in North Rhine-Westphalia

April 27.04.2009, 25 Gronau/Münster (dpa) - A special train carrying uranium left Gronau in North Rhine-Westphalia late on Monday evening. According to the Environmental Working Group (AKU), the transport with XNUMX wagons is on its way to Russia. (R's note. According to the latest information, this train was heading towards Pierrelatte in France)

A spokesman for the federal police in Münster confirmed that an incident with an anti-nuclear power activist occurred around midnight.

The woman rappelled down from a motorway bridge over the railway tracks near Münster.

A federal police high-altitude rescue team had to rescue them. The onward journey of the uranium transport was delayed by around an hour.

According to the AKU, the wagons are said to be loaded with 1250 tons of uranium hexafluoride. The transport started from Germany's only uranium processing plant in Gronau, Westphalia.

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Comment from Werner Neubauer:

But the uranium transporters miscalculated, they probably secretly thought: 'After the strenuous Chernobyl anniversary demonstration, the tired activists will want to get a good night's sleep. We should take advantage of the opportunity and quickly, in a cloak and dagger operation, smuggle through a particularly crowded 'special uranium train to Pierrelatte'.

Well, you missed it, you didn't start with that 'indomitable squirrel' expected ...

Many thanks to Cecile, I wish you all the best
and a firm hold on all your trees.