Over 50,000 protesters mobilised to delay the twelfth annual transport of highly-radioactive material (123 tonnes in 11 carriages) from La Hague, France, to storage at Gorleben, Germany, in early November.
In France, five activists locked-on with arm tubes under the rails, stopping the train for 3½ hours. Police cut them free so carelessly that three required surgery. In southern Germany, a blockade by over 1,500 forced the train to change route. People dangling from bridges also…