France anit-nuclear protest
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators try to access to the railway tracks to block a train as they protest against a planned castor container tranport of nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. According to Greenpeace and the French nuclear phaseout initiative "Sortir du Nucleaire" (Out of the Nuclear Power), eleven castors containing nuclear waste will leave the freight station in the city of Valognes, western France, a day earlyer than expected to be transported to the deposit in Gorleben. Banner reads: Nuclear waste: dead end. AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators protest against a planned castor container tranport of nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard
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View of the train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from the retreatment La Hague factory bound for Gorleben in Germany, currently waiting for departure at the Areva's station terminal in Valognes, northwestern France. AFP Photo/Damien Meyer
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View of the train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from the retreatment La Hague factory bound for Gorleben in Germany, currently waiting for departure at the Areva's station terminal in Valognes, northwestern France. AFP Photo/Damien Meyer
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View of the train carrying highly radioactive nuclear waste from the retreatment La Hague factory bound for Gorleben in Germany, currently waiting for departure at the Areva's station terminal in Valognes, northwestern France. AFP Photo/Damien Meyer
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators hold a banner that reads "Stop Areva, you stink of nuclear" in a field in Lieusaint near Valognes. Reuters/Benoit Tessier
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French CRS riot police walk on railway tracks before the departure of the train convoy of castor containers, which carry radioactive nuclear waste, in Lieusaint near Valognes. Reuters/Benoit Tessier
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators try to block a train as they protest against a planned castor container tranport of nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators try to block a train as they protest against a planned castor container tranport of nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard
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French CRS riot police clash with an anti-nuclear demonstrator during a protest in Lieusaint near Valognes. Reuters/Benoit Tessier
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Anti-nuclear demonstrators, who chained themselves to railway tracks, try to block a train as they protest against a planned castor container tranport of nuclear waste in the French western city of Flottemanville. Banner reads: Nuclear waste: dead end. AFP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard
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