Capenhurst – 50 Years of Uranium Enrichment

On 4th March we joined a protest was held at Urenco’s Capenhurst nuclear plant, to grieve for exactly 50 years of uranium enrichment there.  Uranium mining harms the environment, nuclear generates electricity at astronomic cost and with serious risks (think of Chernobyl, Fukushima, the Windscale fire etc.), produces ever-growing radioactive waste that remains deadly for centuries that no-one knows what to do with (let our grandchildren worry about that), but the bottom line is that no macho government anywhere can have a nuclear bomb without first having a ‘civilian’ nuclear industry.  Our protest was joined by a woman from Japan with first-hand knowledge of the lives ruined by the Fukushima catastrophe