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Article: Argentinians Protest Planned Nuclear Waste Facility
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- June 17, 1996
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About 1,300 people took part in a march in southern Argentina
today to protest against the building of a nuclear waste facility in
the region.
The demonstrators, including provincial and national legislators,
traveled on foot and in more than 100 cars from Trelew, Puerto Madryn
and other cities to the town of Gastre in southern Chubut province.
Gastre is 450 kilometers from Trelew.
The march was organized by the Chubutan Antinuclear Movement and
the Chubut Students Committee with the support of environmental
organizations and provincial and national officials.
Last week, some 4,000 people in various cities in ...