WEEK 6 January 24th to 30th

   RESUMING TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

   Germany will, after a two year break, be resuming the controversial transport of radioactive material from nuclear plants. The plan is to resume the transport in August this year, reports the German government.

   The transports were halted in May 1998 by Helmot Kohl’s Christian Democrat government after the discovery of leaks outside the «safe» containers.

   Critics are now discussing how trustworthy the Social Democratic/Green Party government is on the nuclear power issue. How much of its soul the Green Party has sold, to gain Power...