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Castor: Punish the Railways by pulling emergency brakes
Diet Simon - 31.10.2010 07:25
A call is running through German Internet sites to pull the emergency brakes of passenger trains to paralyse the entire rail network. First published by a newspaper "junge welt" (Young World) the call, attributed to an "Emergency Brake Lesson Committee”, was quickly replicated by activist sites.
Stop Castor graffiti on an Inter-City train
The paper wrote that on “Day X” inconspicuously dressed people will board countless trains and stop them by pulling emergency brakes.
“For legal reasons every emergency stop forces the Railways to do a painstaking inspection of the running technology of all carriages, causing stoppages hours long on open stretches. The aim is to paralyse the railways nationwide.”
With little input by few people the transportation of Castors would be seriously slowed down, the paper said.
"We save ourselves a long trip to Gorleben. The Railways as an accomplice of the atomic lobby is efficiently punished. Police are denied the pleasure of bashing us. It will be hard to take legal action against us. And on top of it all, the Railways have to refund our ticket prices because of the delays.”
Activists are advised to pull the brakes before trains are at top speed so that no unsuspecting people get hurt and where possible, in an unnoticed moment.
"Avoid leaving fingerprints. In the unlikely event of being held, our lawyers advise urgently to say nothing and demand a lawyer. We’ll support you with the costs.”
A train carrying 11 Castor containers is due to run from France to Gorleben in Germany between 5 and 7 November.
Each Castor casket of waste fused into glass contains nine to 10 times as much radiation as was released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
So that means the equivalent of about 100 Hiroshimas in radiation terms is travelling 1,000 kilometres through densely populated areass of France and Germany and 20 km on country roads from the destination railhead to a storage hall.
The hall in Gorleben already contains 91 Castors - multiply by 9 or 10 to get the Hirsohima equivalent.
About 1,000 Castors are held near German nuclear power stations - again, multiply by nine or 10 for the Hiroshima equivalent.
Nah, not a bit dangerous.....
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