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German police forcibly removed anti-nuclear protesters who had staged a sit-in outside a nuclear waste storage facility where 11 containers of reprocessed nuclear waste are to be stored.
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A demonstrator dressed in comic outfit poses beside a policeman during a protest against nuclear power in Gorleben, northern Germany, on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. A transport train carrying nuclear waste from the French reprocessing plant in La Hague is...
