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TRAIN CARRYING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL DERAILS NEAR FRANCO-GERMAN BORDER

4th Febuary 1997 - 7:30 a.m.: A train with four flasks carrying German spent nuclear fuel has had an accident about 500 meters from the French-German border on French territory. Three cars loaded with flasks derailed completely, without tipping over, during shunting maneuvers in the yard at Apach.

Photographs © Greenpeace / Becker / Bredel

These flasks left the Emsland NPP at Lingen in Lower Saxony on Monday evening and were on their way to Sellafield via Dunkirk (where they were to be loaded onto the European Shearwater).

A few hours behind this transport and on the same railway stretch was the transport with spent fuel from Kruemmel NPP which Greenpeace had blocked for a week near Hamburg. This second train was detained in Trier until it was re-routed, also toward Dunkirk and Sellafield..

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