The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May
Trains carrying radioactive waste from power stations in the East England are regularly ‘chugging’ through the area. The waste is carried from Sizewell through Leiston, Saxmundham, Rendlesham, Woodbridge, Ipswich, Manningtree, Colchester, Chelmsford, then Brentwood, which is where the nuclear waste train from Bradwell joins after passing Southminster, Burnham on Crouch, Wickford, Billaricay. Then chugging on through London to Sellafield where it's reprocessed to produce uranium and plutonium. The uranium is used in fuel rods for nuclear reactors which then produce even more radioactive waste. As a fuel, plutonium can only be used in so-called fast breeder reactors, which are a bit dodgy even by nuclear reactor standards and are generally being phased out. Most plutonium therefore ends up as the main ingredient in weapons of mass destruction.
Nuclear waste is transported in large white-painted "flasks", each of which is carried on a flat-bed railway wagon. This is, of course, ‘completely’ safe, just like G.M food and CS gas. Especially as the privatised railways are spending sooo much money on track safety! Anyway, the trains are quite short, and don't carry any other freight, so they shouldn't be too hard to spot. Trains from the Sizewell and Bradwell reactors generally go through 16 London boroughs before heading up through the country to Sellafield in Cumbria. The big problem we face is what to do with all this dangerous waste.
CoRWM (Committee on Radio-Active Waste Management) have narrowed the field of their recommendations (for the government) as to what to do with the UK’s nuclear waste to four possibilities. But as a spokes person for CoRWM admitted at the Irish and UK’S Nuclear Free Authorities Conference in March this year, that they still had no firm solutions for the future. “If we bury the waste under ground, then we still do not know whether to seal the vaults with concrete straight away or leave a highly secure door for access in the future” nobody knows what kind of a future we are leaving for future generations and how the world will be in 100 years let alone 1,000 years.
Surely if the general public knew about this there would be an even stronger ground swell of concern about the possibilities of new nuclear power stations. Would you be interested in helping eastern CND raise the awareness of this issue with the use of street theatre and leaflets? .Do you live along the train track route? If so then contact Eastern CND for more details.