As we revealed in the Examiner, nuclear trains are passing through the area, but now it has been revealed one had a faulty valve.
The Evening Post is carrying a story claiming a train, with nuclear waste from Plymouth on-board, had the problem with a flask last year.
The defective flask on the freight train had fuel from the submarine HMS Talent which was docked at Davenport Dockyard.
John Large, the expert who carried out the report, claims that “Since these flasks travel through cities they could affect quite a considerable number of members of the public.”
The incident, which took place in April 2005, apprently only posed a “minor risk” to nearby residents.
Apparently the train in question travelled through Coalpit Heath, Winterbourne, Yate and then though the Wickwar Tunnel.
Had anything happened to the train; had it had caught on fire or been involved in an accident then the potential for a leak was massive.
You can read more about the incident in this BBC story.
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1 The BRADLEY STOKE Examiner | Blog Archive » Nuclear valve risk “cobblers” // Aug 5, 2006 at 4:47 pm
[...] The South Gloucestershire Observers reports an ex-nuclear engineer says the threat from a nuclear train with a faulty valve was “cobblers”. [...]
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