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A multi-partisan activist group established to expose and resist US imperialism, corpora-terrorism, and the New World Order
Radioactive waste dogs Germany despite abandoning nuclear power –Major problems at salt mine where 126,000 drums of radioactive debris are stored, fuelling public distrust of long-term waste disposal plans | 29 Jan 2016 | Half a kilometre beneath the forests of northern Germany, in an old salt mine, a nightmare is playing out. A scheme to dig up previously buried nuclear waste is threatening to wreck public support for Germany's efforts to make a safe transition to a non-nuclear future. Enough plutonium-bearing radioactive waste is stored here to fill 20 Olympic swimming pools…The race is on to dig it all up before radioactive residues are flushed to the surface.