Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 14:15:25 -0400
 
      6 May 1996 (Reuter) - German officials appealed for calm
but braced for more violence from anti-nuclear activists ahead
of a shipment of nuclear waste due to arrive by rail from
France this week. The train, the first of some 110 due to
carry radioactive waste from a French reprocessing plant back
to Germany over the next eight years, is expected to reach a
medium-term storage unit in northern Germany on Wednesday.

      6 May 1996 (Reuter) - French Greens denounced the La
Hague nuclear reprocessing centre, expected to send a
controversial cargo of highly radioactive material to Germany,
as Europe's "atomic rubbish bin." The plant was built chiefly
to manufacture fuel for nuclear reactors but its most
profitable activity has become reprocessing spent nuclear
fuel. La Hague in northern France is the world's largest
reprocessor of nuclear waste.