A train carrying waste from reprocessed nuclear fuel to a German storage site has been forced to retreat by protesters.
The campaigners have blocked the rails and clashed with police.
Police have decided to have the train reverse a few miles to the next station for unspecified maintenance while trying to clear the track.
It is unclear when the train will arrive at northern German town of Dannenberg, where the six waste containers are to be loaded onto flatbed trucks to complete the 375-mile trip from a French reprocessing plant.
The train, with 60 tons of nuclear waste, was stuck for hours some 16 miles outside a railway depot in Dannenberg as police laboriously removed three protesters who had chained and cemented themselves to the rails.
Police say five officers have been injured in the clashes - one seriously. Some 600 protesters were arrested and dozens injured. About 20,000 police have been in action in Germany's biggest security operations for years.
Police have sent reinforcements to Dannenberg, about 12 miles from the waste dump, after protestors threw stones and flares at them.
Police responded with water cannon and baton charges.
PA