They arrived under a veil of fog and darkness... 11 flatbed trucks with containers of highly active nuclear waste pull into a containment facility in northern Germany Monday night.<br/> With a police escort 1000 officers strong, the convoy reached its final destination after days of rail travel from it's origin-- a reprocessing center in northern France.<br/> Sometimes violent demonstrations interrupted the transport along the way... French and German anti nuclear protesters staged sit-ins and roadblocks that were successful in slowing the movement.<br/> Still, the material arrived. The waste itself, produced in German reactors years ago, had been sent to France for reprocessing, and will be stored back in Germany.<br/> German government officials decided to close all nuclear power plants by 2020-- this after the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plants in Japan that were badly damaged in a massive earthquake and tsunami in March.<br/> Julie Noce, Reuters
