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Home | Friday 22nd May 2009 | Issue 676

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NOW WE'RE ROLLING

Anti-Trident protesters have occupied a new site at the Rolls Royce Rayensway hi-tech manufacturing facility in Derby, in reaction to RR’s recently acquired contract to build nuclear reactors for power stations. Already on the site RR have elements enriched with uranium and zircaloy as well as a nuclear test reactor for submarine engines equipped with Trident missiles.  

Protesters are also demanding an evacuation plan for local inhabitants and workers within a two-mile radius of the factory, which should be open to evaluation from the local council and emergency services.

The disarmament camp, now a week old, is located on an old training ground for the Derby football team and has plenty of space for tents, tree-houses and the like. Police intervention has so far been minimal. It is easy to get to on foot along the river footpaths signed for Alvaston from the city centre.

Map links and details at: www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/429776 see also www.tridentploughshares for more general info 

Keywords: derby, nuclear weapons, protest, rayensway, rolls royce, trident missiles


 

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