1.   Police and anti-nuclear activists clashed earlier this year in Germany and Japan during protests against the waste transport.

2.   Police broke up a sit-in by anti-nuclear activists and battled protesters throwing firebombs Wednesday while clearing the way for the last leg of a nuclear waste transport.

3.   Activists say their goal is to force the government to reconsider its support for nuclear energy by making the waste transports expensive.

4.   After days of anti-nuclear protests, a nuclear waste transport completed its trip to a storage depot Wednesday to a chorus of whistles from thousands of demonstrators.

5.   Anti-nuclear groups say the plant is one of three from which waste transports are scheduled to leave on Tuesday for a French reprocessing facility in La Hague.

6.   Anti-nuclear protesters armed with slingshots and firebombs battled police Wednesday as thousands of officers cleared the way for the last leg of a nuclear waste transport.

7.   Anti-nuclear protesters armed with slingshots and firebombs battled police Wednesday as thousands of officers attempted to clear the way for the last leg of a nuclear waste transport.

8.   But Economics Minister Werner Mueller in an interview on Phoenix television Thursday said nuclear waste transport would continue for another three to five years.

9.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl sharply criticized the German power industry Friday for covering up leaky nuclear waste transports in a scandal uncovered last month.

10.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Wednesday angrily rejected opposition demands that his environment minister resign because of a scandal over leaky nuclear waste transports.