POLICEMAN TRIES TO UNLOCK GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS FROM THE RAILS NEAR DANNENBERG, 2001-03-27 (photo)

A policeman drills a hole into a huge lock used by Greenpeace activists to tie themselves up to the rails in Nahrendorf some 20 km (12 miles) west of Dannenberg, March 27, 2001, during protests against a transport of six helium-sealed so-called Castor containers carrying slag from a French plant that reprocesses fuel rods from German reactors. The first such shipment since a ban imposed three years ago took one of the biggest peacetime security operations Germany had ever seen to keep the line open. The cargo was due at Dannenberg late in the evening, from where the six wagon-sized Castor containers were to be unloaded and moved 25 km (16 miles) by road to the storage facility in Gorleben on Wednesday. WR/FMS