Anti-nuclear protesters took to the streets in Germany, France and Belgium to mark the one-year anni

Описание: (16 May 2012) HEADLINE: Raw Video: Europeans protest nuclear power
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CAPTION: Anti-nuclear protesters took to the streets in Germany, France and Belgium to mark the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and call for a reduction in the reliance on nuclear energy. (March 11)
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[Location - Date:NECKARWESTHEIM, GERMANY -- AP VIDEO --MARCH 11]
[Notes:BRUSSELS, -- AP VIDEO --MARCH 11]
[Notes:VO-- LYON, FRANCE -- AP VIDEO --MARCH 11]
STORYLINE:
Around three-thousand demonstrators staged a rally outside Germany's Neckarwestheim Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday, to commemorate the first anniversary of Japan's Fukushima disaster and demand their country abandon nuclear energy.
"If the Japanese cannot control a nuclear power station nobody can," said one protester taking part in the rally.
"We knew this before but that is the final proof," he added.
Another woman said Neckarwestheim's reactor should be switched off immediately in wake of Japan's nuclear disaster.
Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactor cores melted down after a massive tsunami knocked out their vital cooling systems.
Germany's government decided in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster to immediately shut down eight atomic reactors, with the remaining nine power plants to be shut by 2022.
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More than one-thousand people marched through Brussels on Sunday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, and call for a reduction in the reliance on nuclear energy.
The protest, organised by a number of Nongovernmental Organisations was supported by the Belgian Green party.
Demonstrators marched through the city centre carrying huge anti-nuclear banners, waving flags and chanting slogans.
Amongst them was Japanese anti-nuclear activist Satoko Kishimoto who said despite the disaster in her country, it was not easy to stop nuclear policies in Japan.
Police estimated that 1,300 people took part in Sunday's march.
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Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters were expected to form a human chain stretching the 200 kilometres (120 miles) between the French cities of Lyon and Avignon on Sunday, as part of an anti-nuclear demonstration.
The protest, organised by the pressure group Sortir du Nucleaire came on the one-year anniversary of the deadly Japanese tsunami which caused the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

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