Between 300 and 400 tractors took to the roads Sunday to protest against a resumption of nuclear waste shipments from France to Germany, organizers said.
Farmers on their tractors first surrounded a temporary waste storage facility in Gorleben and later headed for Seerau where a demonstration was scheduled in the afternoon.
On Saturday, more than 10,000 anti-nuclear activists had protested in Lueneburg against the resumption of nuclear waste shipments, and many spent the night in churches or at a campground. No incidents were reported.
On Monday, treated nuclear waste is scheduled to be shipped from a French recycling facility in La Hague to Gorleben, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) from Lueneburg.
It will be the first such shipment in four years.
The transport of nuclear waste from France to Germany was halted in 1998 after numerous protests, particularly from German environmental activists.
But French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announced after meeting on January 31 that the shipments would resume -- GORLEBEN, Germany (AFP)
