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Dear Editor,

Re: No third nuclear plant at Dungeness might allow us to sleep a little easier in our beds - (Gwyn Prosser MP column 19 November 2009)

I remember Shepway Friends of the Earth joining the umbrella group 'Kent Against a Radioactive Environment' (KARE), in the 80s

I believe you were one of the founder members.

When KARE's mission to highlight the dangers of importing highly radioactive nuclear waste was achieved and the group was dissolved, I continued to monitor the imports through Dover.

I learnt so much about this deadly business that after getting the OK from KARE's former coordinator took the name KARE and revived the group.

We have been campaigning against nuclear power ever since.

We have taken part in direct action at or near nuclear transports in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands where the waste was being generated prior to export to the UK for reprocessing at Sellafield.

Thanks Mr Prosser, for your inspiration in the eighties.

Barrie Botley,
KARE coordinator