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Directions to No Mox Parade From Columbia: Go to end of I-26 and come down King until you see the
empty lot on the right, or
Go to end of I-26, be in left lane and go on Meeting Street, go down one
or two blocks and turn right onto Spring, go one block and the empty lot
will be across King on your right.
If you get to the touristy part of Charleston on either Meeting or King,
turn around, go North; Spring Street is a one way street going West in the
part of town with empty storefronts.
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Quick update on the MOX fuel we will meet in Charleston the week of April 4
It
was weapons grade plutonium, left over from the Cold War. Rather than
being vitrified (encased in glass and immobilized), this batch is
destined to be used in an experiment to determine how profitable and
how "safe" it is for Duke Energy to burn MOX fuel made from weapons
grade plutonium.
In September of last year, over 300 pounds of
it were trucked the approximately 1500 miles from the Los Alamos
nuclear laboratory in New Mexico to Charleston, where the deadly cargo
was loaded on two British boats, the Pacific Teal and the Pacific
Pintail. The ships took the plutonium to Cherbourg, France, where it
was put on two trucks and driven to the Cadarache nuclear production
facility near Marseilles, passing within about 10 miles of Paris along
the way. At Cadarache, it was made into four lead test assemblies,
leaving two assemblies of fuel that even the proponents of this
reckless technology admit is not useable.
The resulting waste MOX
and potentially burnable MOX appears to be on the way back to
Charleston right now. All indications were that the same two ships left
Cherbourg yesterday (Tuesday, March 22) with their radioactive load.
They should arrive in Charleston some time between April 4 and April 9.
On arrival, the four "good" assemblies will be loaded onto
trucks and transported to Duke Power's Catawba plant on Lake Wylie near
Rock Hill. The two unuseable ones will be returned to Los Alamos. We at
Charleston Peace believe that it is unwise, unsafe, and unnecessary to
move nuclear materials at all, particularly to move them for thousands
of miles just to provide Duke Energy with free testing services. Moving
these deadly substances carries a risk of accidents, and better and
safer alternatives, such as solar and wind energy, are available and
should be studied and supported. Plutonium should be vitrified.
Please
join us in our efforts to inform the city of Charleston and the people
in South Carolina of the dangers of moving or using nuclear materials.
Help us make them aware of this shipment. We need artists to create
banners, drivers and cars for the caravan and the parade we are
planning, photographers, money, people to create and people to pass out
factsheets and flyers, and especially people with good ideas.
If you can help, please contact
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(803-516-4681) for the caravan to Rock Hill and for info on SRS, or
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(842-723-5203) for the parade, forum, art needs.
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Post Office Box 7933