BERLIN, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Protesters were cleared from roads leading to a nuclear storage facility in Germany, allowing the delivery of 11 containers of nuclear waste, police said.
German police said thousands of anti-nuclear protesters were removed from the road leading to a nuclear storage facility in northern Germany, the German news agency Deutsche Welle reports.
The waste was from nuclear reactors in Germany that had been sent to reprocessing plants in northern France.
Activists with the environmental advocacy group Greenpeace blocked access to a freight station using trucks disguised as beer delivery vehicles. Two others encased themselves in concrete blocks near the site, blocking nuclear freight transport for about 11 hours.
The activists were removed from the cement blocks Tuesday morning and the first truck in a 123-ton delivery arrived at the storage plant later in the day.
More than 3,000 protesters staged a sit-in on train tracks during the weekend. Five others had chained themselves to train tracks along delivery routes in France.
German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen recently ordered the resumption of work at the waste facility after severe protests against the site had shut it down for a decade. Critics say it isn't safe enough to store the waste.
