31. One port worker has died after cleaning the hold of the ship which transported the waste from Taiwan, a port official said on Sunday. 32. One port worker reportedly died after cleaning the hull of the ship that transported the waste, although the cause of death has not been clearly determined. 33. Protesters have argued for years that the containers in which nuclear waste is transported are unsafe. 34. The demonstrations were just the latest against plans to transport nuclear waste to the temporary storage site in Ahaus, in the northwestern state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 35. The court ruling follows a request by the two British shipping companies that will transport the waste starting Thursday, according to COGEMA, the French waste processor. 36. The large containers used to transport the waste by train are supposed to protect the environment from the radioactivity within. 37. There is no need to be transporting waste across Canada to a disposal site. 38. Hundreds of people protested Sunday against plans to transport nuclear waste from a French reprocessing plant to a storage centre near here. 39. But he said the latest acts of sabotage this week caused environmental damage by cutting lines used to transport pig waste, dumping it into the water system. 40. Farmers and anti-nuclear activists mounted an angry struggle Tuesday to prevent a load of highly dangerous atomic waste being transported across Germany from reaching an underground storage dump. |