(25 Nov 2011)
Woods near village of Goehrde
1. Wide of road through woods blocked by tree branches, put there by anti-nuclear protesters, bike manoeuvring round them
2. Mid of protesters dragging branches to the road
3. Wide of armoured police vehicle clearing the barricade away from road
4. Wide of protesters next to barricade
5. Wide of police vehicles manoeuvring around the barricade
6. Wide of barricade, police, police vehicle
7. Long shot of anti-nuclear protesters setting a barricade
STORYLINE:
German police on Friday used armoured personnel carriers to clear barricades set on roads through the woods around the village of Goehrde in northern Germany, near the railway track where the Castor (cask for storage and transport of radioactive material) train carrying nuclear waste is expected to pass in the next few days.
Anti-nuclear protesters used tree branches and stumps to block the paths through the woods to prevent police patrolling the area.
A massive security operation was under way in northern Germany as police prepared for the arrival of the nuclear waste train at the weekend.
The train is bringing back to Germany a shipment of nuclear waste reprocessed in France, and plans to take it to a storage site in Gorleben.
20-thousand officers are mobilised to secure the train, which is carrying radio-active material from a processing plant in La Hague, France.
The trainload of waste set off from northwestern France on Wednesday.
It wasn't immediately clear when it would cross into Germany.
The waste shipment to Germany is the first since Berlin decided to shut all its nuclear plants by 2022, after Japan's nuclear disaster following the tsunami.
But officials haven't resolved where waste should be stored permanently. Activists argue the Gorleben storage site, where the waste is heading, is unsafe.

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