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Pitched battles erupted between anti-nuclear protesters and riot police in Germany Tuesday.
The clash occurred as demonstrators attempted to seize control of a road being used for the last leg of the transportation of atomic waste.
Protesters threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the police trying to secure the road which links Dannenberg to Gorleben, the site of a nuclear waste storage facility.
Peaceful demonstrations turned violent Tuesday when protesters clashed with police.
The protesters were trying to seize control of the road on which nuclear waste is to travel by road to a nuclear waste storage facility at Gorleben.
One by one they were rounded up and detained by police.
The clashes took place in Quickborn, six kilometres from Dannenberg where the nuclear had arrived by rail earlier Tuesday.
The train had travelled 700 kilometres (420 miles) from Walheim, in the south of the country.
Workers in Dannenberg had to transfer the waste from the train onto trucks to take it the last 18 kilometres (11 miles) to Gorleben.
The nuclear waste from German power plants was returning from reprocessing in neighbouring France under an agreement mandating its return to Germany for storage.
Germany has no reprocessing facility.
The transport of the spent nuclear fuel has triggered protests along the route.
In Germany's biggest police operation since the Second World War, 30-thousand officers have been deployed at a cost of up to 100 (m) million marks (60 (m) million U-S dollars).
More than 10-thousand anti-nuclear protestors gathered in Dannenberg on Monday and kept up their vigil into the night.
And Tuesday morning, many were still there -- determined to slow the final stage of the nuclear waste's journey.
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