2 April 2011. About 7,000 people took part in anti-nuclear protests in Bremen. About 3,000 people protested outside of RWE's headquarters in Essen. Other smaller rallies were held elsewhere. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition announced on 30 May 2011, that Germany's 17 nuclear power stations will be shut down by 2022, in a policy reversal following Japan's Fukushima I nuclear accidents. Seven of the German power stations were closed temporarily in March, and they will remain off-line and be permanently decommissioned. An eighth was already off line, and will stay so. Between 2011 and 2014 Germany burned more coal, an additional 9.5 million tonnes of oil equivalent. In November 2011, thousands of anti-nuclear protesters delayed a train carrying radioactive waste from France to Germany. Many clashes and obstructions made the journey the slowest one since the annual shipments of radioactive waste began in 1995. The shipment, the first since Japan's Fukishima nuclear disaster, faced large protests in France where activists damaged the train tracks. Thousands of people in Germany also interrupted the train's journey, forcing it to proceed at a snail's pace, covering 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) in 109 hours. More than 200 people were reported injured in the protests and several arrests were made. Galvanised by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, first anniversary anti-nuclear demonstrations were held in Germany in March 2012. Organisers say more than 50,000 people in six regions took part. People with anti-nuclear views Karl Bechert Hermann Behmel Hildegard Breiner Rolf Disch Hans-Peter Dürr Hans-Josef Fell Erich Fromm Siegwart Horst Günther Robert Jungk André Larivière Irene Meichsner Rainer Moormann Claudia Roth Rüdiger Sagel Hermann Scheer Jens Scheer Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake Michael Sladek Ursula Sladek Klaus Traube Roland Vogt Armin Weiss Timeline Spiegel Online has presented this timeline of events associated with the anti-nuclear power movement in Germany: 1975: Fight about a proposed new nuclear power plant for Whyl. 1976: Clashes between police and protesters at the Brokdorf construction site. 1977: Clashes between anti-nuclear activists and security forces at Brokdorf. 1977: 50,000 people protested against the construction of a fast-breeder reactor at Kalkar in the lower Rhine region. 1979: Following the Three Mile Island accident, 100,000 people demonstrated against plans for a reprocessing plant at Gorleben 1979: The anti-nuclear movement grows and 150,000 people demonstrated in Bonn, demanding the closure of all nuclear facilities. 1980: 5,000 people occupy the site of the proposed nuclear repository at Gorleben. 1981: Riots in