Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks to Frances McKie for alerting me to this.
From BBC Cumbria, two days ago, the above and:
A longstanding leak at “Britain’s most hazardous building” is a nuclear plant’s “single biggest environmental issue”, a select committee has heard. The leak in the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) – built more than 50 years ago at Sellafield in Cumbria – started in 2019 after first occurring in the 1970s. Labour MP Luke Charters told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday that every three years the silo leaked enough material to fill an “Olympic-sized swimming pool”. A longstanding leak at “Britain’s most hazardous building” is a nuclear plant’s “single biggest environmental issue”, a select committee has heard.
BBC Scotland have shown no interest in this. Well, it’s not in Scotland is it? It’s not, just, but it is upstream and upwind of most of Scotland.
Why would that matter?
In Scotland:
In 2021, the rate, or risk, of new cancers also increased to 644 per 100,000 [around 700 for men and 600 for women (an increase of 3.1% compared with 2019).
In England, in 2020, the rate for men was 590 and for women, 487.
These are significant differences.
There are several explanatory factors including smoking (England lowest 13%, Scotland next at 13.9%, N Ireland at 14% and Wales at 14.1%) and better NHS detection services but you have to wonder about the Sellafield reprocessing plant, the most toxic nuclear plant in Europe, seeping pollutants around our coast for 70 years now, the nuclear submarines in the Clyde and munitions on the roads and rail, the waste travelling to Sellafield, the rotting nuclear hulks in Rosyth, as well as the power stations, only recently shut down.
Sources:
More on Sellafield, largely unreported in Scotland:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Of course Cumbria is almost as far from London as the west coast of Scotland. We already have Dounreay our largest nuclear clean-up site, the UK’s nuclear warheads are stored at Coulport, the nuclear submarines based at Faslane and the nuclear hulks parked at Rosyth for decommissioning.
Don’t forget about the radium coated aircraft panels dumped off the Fife coast causing radioactive contamination in Dalgety Bay. Also, remember Beaufort’s Dyke, the deep trench in the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the MOD dumped munitions, conventional and chemical weapons, and radioactive waste.
Let’s not forget Gruinard where the MOD spread anthrax and poisoned sheep and other animals on the island, which spread to the mainland, to test biological warfare.
Have I forgotten anything?
Fortunately for England, the nuclear warheads are designed and developed at Aldermaston, the submarines built in Barrow in Furness and the repairs carried out in Plymouth. So lot of lucrative jobs there, not that I would want any of that in Scotland either.
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Chapelcross?
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”…and no great mischief if they fall .” said General Wolfe of the Scottish soldiers …..
UK’s most dangerous building downwind from much of the Scottish population …
Decaying nuclear subs left to rot at Rosyth in the heart of central Scotland …….
UK’s Trident nuclear subs based close to Scotland’s largest population centre …
General Wolfe’s contempt is clearly shared by those who make these decisions , treating Scotland as a dumping ground for the UK’s sh*t !
Plus ca change …..
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” BBC Scotland have shown no interest in this ” is no surprise, “it’s not in the national interest”
Nor is it in the “national interest” to reveal most all of England are anti-nuclear and avidly against SMRs – It’s not an SNP thing nor a Scottish thing after all, it’s a UK wide phobia largely caused by decades of lies and industrial scale bullshit largely centred on Winscale/Sellafield.
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