Nuclear protest group gets campaign right on track
David Polden dresses up for the protest LE3779/A
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.
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