Thousands protest against nuclear power plants

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April 24, 2010

Thousands of protesters across Germany have formed a human chain to demonstrate against the government's policy on nuclear power plants. The environmental group BUND said in a statement Saturday that some 120,000 protesters formed a 120 kilometre-long (74-mile-long) human chain through Hamburg and along the Elbe river in northern Germany rejecting government plans to extend the operation time of nuclear power plants. BUND spokesman Thorben Becker said that the demonstrations are a signal to the government that "it is high time to shut down the country's nuclear plants." Protests also took place at a nuclear power plant in Biblis in central Germany and at the nuclear waste storage facility in Ahaus in the west of the country.