Nuclear threat to Bromley

2:29pm Tuesday 18th July 2006

Do the people of Bromley and surrounding areas realise the danger to them - and to their families - which is posed by Tony Blair's personal decision to start building more nuclear plants?

The nuclear waste from Dungeness already passes through the Chislehurst and Bickley lines - if there are new nuclear power stations there will be more waste.

If there is more waste, there is the possibility of an accident. A train crashing off one of the higher bridges, which would split the irradiated fuel carrier, would mean at least 50,000 people would die - either slowly or quickly from the radiation released.

Tony Blair has announced that new nuclear power stations will reduce the UK's emissions and help curb climate change - he obviously is not thinking of his children or his children's children who will have to live with the burden of radioactive waste which is cancer-causing for up to a million years.

If that isn't something to worry about, why not worry that the man who is apparently the elected leader of this country - and being elected, has to respond to those who elected him - is one who is disallowing public consultation on the nuclear decision - you do not have a say in his decision and neither does your MP - because, just like the Iraq war, TB has taken the decision by himself and Parliament is not going to be able to debate or question this decision on nuclear power stations for you.

Is this how you think serious decisions like this should be made - by one man? Isn't that a tyranny?

Roisin Robertson, Greenpeace area networker, SE London

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