Nuclear protest group gets campaign right on track

11:15am Tuesday 19th April 2005

ACTIVISTS are hoping their demonstration will start a chain reaction of protest against the toxic nuclear waste which is transported through London.

The Nuclear Trains Action Group was in Lewisham High Street on April 9 handing out leaflets highlighting what it says are the dangers of the lethal cargo travelling through built-up areas.

The trains travel through Lewisham, transporting highly radioactive waste fuel from nuclear power stations at Dungeness up to Windscale in Cumbria.

David Leal of Lewisham and Greenwich CND said: "If anything happened to one of these containers, perhaps a terrorist attack, then it would be a mini Chernobyl right here in Lewisham.

"A full public safety audit is needed."