The Nuclear Fight Back Grows

Activists from all over Britain dealt Nuclear Electric a blow - the first of many to come. Nuclear plants at Sizewell, Torness, Hinkley Point, Hunterston & Dungeness, were all targeted around March 4th 1994, as Greenpeace and Lancashire County Council lost their High Court Challenge:

Torness (East Lothian):
Forty people blocked the main entrance at the 7am shift change for two hours. Activists chained themselves together across the road with steel tubes. Workers trying to get out drove at protesters but luckily most were able to release themselves. They left a side gate open to allow angry workers out.

Once the police arrived, the protesters decided to block the side gate as well by chaining it closed. As a protester tried to do this, a Scottish Nuclear security guard in a Land rover drove straight into the gate which hit the protester, sending him 10ft in the air. He was taken to hospital, he is now OK but suffered bruising to his arm and chest.

Hinkley Point (Somerset):
Forty people blocked the main entrance. Some chained themselves to the gate with U locks. A back entrance into the station was left open for cars. At the 2pm shift change a group of protesters went and shut the back gate entrance, causing complete chaos. The police arrived to cut open one off the gates. As the police moved away, protesters got underneath the van, locked on, and blocked the entrance for another 1 1/2 hours. Several protesters got into the site without being stopped.

Sizewell (Suffolk):
Twenty protesters marched up to Sizewell. All were in white suits with a grim reaper leading the m.

Hunterston (North Ayrshire):
Through the Scottish Coalition Against a Radioactive Environment, thirty people closed the station for two hours during the 7am shift change causing a gridlock and two mile tailback. The Station Manager was very unhappy. Three teams blocked various routes and gates, five people chained themselves to a gate, eight chained themselves to a scaffolding pole across one road. Three chained together with steel tubes across another access road. All gates were secured with anchor chain. A breakaway group of about fifty workers in their cars got stuck in mud trying to head across a field to another entrance, however, this too had been secured with chain, it took them two hours to get out. All protesters were wearing black suits and skeleton masks. The protest ended when Scottish Nuclear and the police eventually cut through the chain on a second entrance.

Dungeness (Kent)
Twenty people blocked the main entrance (and the visitor centre) at the shift change. Four people were chained to five concrete barrels which were chained to other protesters and the gate. Protesters stayed put for nine hours.