See past posts about the Aura.
A brand new railway seems a bit over the top as Dounreay is going to be demolished, making the railway line redundant. Why not move the rubbish by ship, as the Germans have been doing for months now,?
The heavy lift ship, Aura, has been shuttling back and forwards between Windscale and a demolished nuclear plant at Lubmin in Germany, which is on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The plant was built by the East Germans and after unification, it was condemned by German authorities. It has been gradually demolished over the past 16 years.
The Aura, normally goes to and fro via the English Channel, but on at least one occasion, it went North from Windscale round to the top of Scotland, which is a longer route.
It now appears obvious why they did so. The Finnish owners were doing a route check up the West coast of Scotland, through the Minch and round via Cape Wraith and onward into the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. They could work out fuel usage and therefore fees, while charging it all to the Germans. Quite clever.
The Aura can carry five huge concrete flasks containing nuclear rubbish.
On the 8th of July she passed round the top of Scotland, once again, heading out into the North Sea, Some fine tuning before finalising the prices, perhaps. I bet that the Aura will get the contract, over this ridiculous train to nowhere, as it will end up becoming.
Who wants an accident on land, with all the problems of a train derailment, possibly, caused by some nuclear protester placing something on the line. They cannot guard the whole line whereas a ship, at Sea is much safer. Should an accident at Sea happen then the ship may sink, the flasks would sink with it and the crew would more than likely escape on a launch. Must safer transportation that by rail across, mainly, Scotland.
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