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Having made its way past anti-nuclear demonstrators skirmishing with police, the radioactive waste convoy which left France on 5 November has finally arrived at a temporary storage site in Gorleben, Germany. Süddeutsche Zeitung reveals that in future, "Nuclear waste will be sent to Russia." The Munich daily reports that Moscow and Berlin are about to conclude an agreement for the shipment of 18 “Castor” containers in three convoys. The nuclear waste which has been stored since 2005 in a former salt mine in Lower- Saxony is to be transferred to Mayak in the southern Urals. Germany’s Green Party, which has seen its approval ratings soar in the wake of recent anti-nuclear protests in the country, has announced that the government is intent on cutting costs at the expense of safety.
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