BERLIN (AP) — A cargo of reprocessed nuclear waste arrived Monday at a port in northern Germany, and authorities have been braced for seemingly protests as it’s transported throughout the nation to a storage website.

A ship carrying six containers of waste from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in England docked within the early morning in Nordenham, information company dpa reported. From there, it’s to be transported by prepare to the now-closed Biblis nuclear energy plant south of Frankfurt, a number of hundred kilometers (miles) away.

Germany has a powerful anti-nuclear motion and waste transports have typically drawn massive protests. Activists query the protection of the waste containers and storage websites.

Following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan 9 years in the past, Germany determined to part out its personal nuclear energy technology by the top of 2022. The Biblis plant is one in every of a number of that was taken offline in 2011, however the website stays in use as a provisional storage facility for nuclear waste.

Germany not too long ago launched a brand new seek for a everlasting website to retailer its most radioactive waste. A ultimate resolution is slated for 2031 and the intention is to begin utilizing the chosen website in 2050.

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