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By Professor John Robertson OBA
From BBC Cumbria last week but, of course, no link to the story from the BBC Scotland site:
The nuclear watchdog has issued an improvement notice after two railway wagons carrying nuclear waste crashed. It happened on the Sellafield site, in Cumbria, which manages more radioactive waste in one place than any other nuclear facility in the world. The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said although no-one was injured and there were no radiation risks during the incident, which happened in November, it could have had “serious consequences”.
What does Sellafield have to do with Scotland?
58 miles by car, 40 by crow (?), the most toxic nuclear plant in Europe has emissions which flow to Scotland on the prevailing currents around the coast and by air on the prevailing southerlies and south-westerlies.
What harm have these emissions done since Sellafield, formerly Seascale was opened, only a year after my birth, in 1952, 72 years ago?
Just as Labour Government announces extension of 46 crack Torness nuclear power station to keep lights in London on, new research suggests cancer mortality risk is greater and quicker to develop than current estimates
Scottish Labour policy challenged as new research reviewing more than 2 000 studies finds increased risk of thyroid cancer for those living near nuclear power plants
Thyroid cancer cases double in the decades after nuclear power comes to Scotland
German research suppressed by Labour Government and media in 2008 revealed under 5’s living near nuclear plants more than twice as likely to develop leukemia
Why is Scotland’s cancer rate significantly higher than that in England – nuclear waste, nuclear power and nuclear weapons placed as far from London as possible?
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Until a nuclear accident (?) happens in the Westminster post code there will be zero concern by politicians there for those living in the ‘far north’ affected insidiously by the inevitable release of dangerous emissions from sites like Sellafield/Windscale or Torness , not forgetting the rotting carcasses of 7 nuclear subs at Rosyth .
We are reliably informed by Government Spokespersons that these are safe and ”Nothing to see here , folks !” Yet , try suggesting this waste /hulks be processed on the Thames …
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Interesting and consistent in its non-reporting in Scotland with past bad practice. I wonder if you have seen and visited the remarkably discreet and white-washing exhibition on “Cold War Scotland”. I found its deftly bland signage as unsettling as its total failure to deal with the issue of nuclear pollution. Its opening ‘film’ is a disgrace of simplified faux history and its ‘explanation’ of the rise of nuclear power stations is mendaciously uncoupled from the need for producing weapons grade material.
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