20,000 people in Dover and Folkestone signed our petition and subsequently in 1991 we persuaded Shepway District Council, by a two to one majority, to support a ban on this transportation.

The spent fuel now goes to Sellafield by sea direct from Dunkirk, in France, to Barrow-in -Furness, Cumbria, the port for Sellafield.

We support other groups in campaigning for the global ban on the transportation of any nuclear materials or radioactive waste - whether by land sea or air.

We are currently focussing on the dangerous practice of transporting highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from Dungeness A & B Nuclear Power Stations to Sellafield for reprocessing. This occurs on a weekly basis, with the nuclear cargo travelling for the first part of its journey on a disused, rickety old quarry rail line across Romney Marsh to Appledore where it joins the main Hastings to Ashford line.

In September 1998 Shepway MP Michael Howard joined local councillors in condemning the state of the track, Photos taken by the Kentish Express clearly show rotting sleepers and missing frog clips on the line.

We are now calling for a complete ban on any transportation of highly toxic radioactive nuclear waste throughout Britain. We cannot avoid the radioactive waste problem, we are stuck with it, but burying it in the ground, out of site out of mind, is simply not the answer. Radioactive waste with half lives of thousands of years demands safe storage above ground, on site of production, where it can be properly monitored for the rest of its radioactive life.