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Witness History: The anti-nuclear protesters who won

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The anti-nuclear protesters who won

31/07/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The anti-nuclear protesters who won

The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.

The eight year protest campaign which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.

In 1980 the Bavarian government announced plans to build a nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf in southern Germany. Eight years later construction on the plant was halted after a sustained protest campaign which saw tens of thousands of demonstrators and sometimes violent clashes with the police.

Lucy Burns speaks to local district administrator Hans Schuierer, who became a figurehead for the protests.

Picture: demonstrators fight against police during a protest at the Wackersdorf construction site (Istvan Bajzat/DPA/PA Images)

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