Greenpeace, a group of rich white boys with very limited intellectual capacity and no useful outlet for their grotesque stupidity and testosterone, are now collectively applying for the Darwin Awards.
They have failed to demonstrate any danger whatsoever from the transport of nuclear materials, and now have been reduced to attempting to manufacture such danger, given that the world is taking them less and less seriously which, given the risk of global climate change is a good thing. (This is amusingly or not so amusingly similar to the effort of Dick Cheney to manufacture a terrorist threat in Iraq where no such threat previously existed.) Using bales of hay, which presumably to demonstrate their commitment to biofuels, the Greenpeace retards set fire to the tracks on which fission products were being transported.
Unfortunately for the poorly educated twits in question, the nuclear materials were no where near as harmful as the exhaust from the burning bales of hay.
DANNENBERG, Germany (AFP) - Anti-nuclear protestors repeatedly halted a controversial shipment of highly radioactive nuclear waste from France bound for a temporary storage facility in northern Germany.
The activists said the train with 12 containers carrying more than 170 tonnes of treated nuclear power plant waste was stopped in the city of Goettingen for about 30 minutes and then later in the village of Bienenbuettel en route to the Gorleben site.
Eighteen demonstrators were briefly detained in Goettingen.
In the town of Harlingen, police removed 150 activists staging a sit-in on the tracks and detained 23.
Demonstrators later set fire to bales of hay placed next to the tracks and police had to move in with water cannon. Thick plumes of smoke were still rising when the train rolled by at a snail's pace.
Police also cleared a blockade of 160 tractors near the town of Klein Gusborn late Sunday, on the last leg of the 600-kilometer (370-mile) trip, where more than 600 people joined the protest following demonstrations throughout the weekend...
...During the last such shipment to Germany in November 2004, a French anti-nuclear activist was killed when he was run over by a train in the eastern French city of Nancy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051121/sc_afp/germanyfrancenuclearThe prospective Darwin awardee in question, the fellow in Nancy, certainly represents the first case of which I am aware wherein a person was killed by the transport of nuclear materials. Of course, the death was not really an accident, it was suicide, in keeping with the general tenor of the opposition to nuclear power, without which humanity is unlikely to survive. I note that radiation was not involved in this death whatsoever. The person in question was killed by pure stupidity.
It is contrasting comparing the 170 metric tons of solid so called "nuclear waste" with two billion tons of carbon dioxide released by US coal plants last year. I very much doubt that the members of Greenpeace - especially given their limited intellect - could find a way to put 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide on a slow moving train.
Germany's output of carbon dioxide owing to coal burning power was 300 million metric tons in 2003.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh4co2.xlsThe volume represented by this unaddressed form of waste, dumped into the atmosphere with copious amounts of nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides, heavy metals, and particulate matter, is well over 150 billion cubic meters. As carbon dioxide is fatal in concentrations exceeding 10 percent within a few minutes, this is enough to create a sphere of toxic air measuring more than 10 kilometers in diameter.
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