From BBC Scotland: Edinburgh, Fife & East today:
Firefighters tackling scrap metal blaze at Rosyth dockyard – Firefighters are tackling a scrap metal fire at a dockyard in Fife. The Scottish Fire Rescue service (SFRS) were called to the scene at the Port of Rosyth at about 03:00. Locals reported hearing an “explosion” and “loud bang” in the early hours of the morning on social media. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7d4311v1o
Why would scrap metal burn?
From the Dunfermline Press 24 March 2026:
Fife Council have given the green light to Babcock for a new warehouse between docks two and three for “decommissioning operations”. The large industrial building – an ‘intermediate waste storage facility’ – will be 27 metres long and up to 20 metres in height with roller doors and security fencing. Work is currently taking place at the dockyard to cut up and dismantle HMS Swiftsure, one of seven old nuclear subs that have been laid up in Rosyth for decades.
Who runs Fife Council? 18 Labour, 13 Lib Dems and 7 Cons have colluded to outnumber the SNP, largest party, by 38 to 34 since May 2017.
Why is all this a disgraceful neglect of the interests and safety of their constituents?
From Brian Goodall, in October 2025, on Facebook:
Babcock’s and MOD asked to think again on nuclear submarine dismantling process at Rosyth Dockyard.
This morning at a meeting of the Rosyth Dockyard Local Liaison Committee in the Dockyard I repeated my long held view that the proposed second stage of the nuclear submarine dismantling demonstrator project, that is about to start, is a stage too far, and I ask for a rethink.
The next step will see Babcock cutting out the reactor pressure vessel from the reactor compartment of the decommissioned nuclear submarine Swiftsure, in an experimental process that has never been done anywhere in the world before. This part of the submarine dismantling project has required Babcock’s to seek an increase in the limits to the levels of radioactivity they are allowed to discharge into the environment around the area.
Full text at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/595098243953732/
Is someone testing the radiation levels downwind of the base?
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I saw that report this morning and immediately thought, “How does metal go on fire?”
Has anyone explained this mystery? I have a metal car sitting outside and a few metal kitchen appliances and utensils – such as forks.
Worried.
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Uri Geller could bend metal. Scotlands colonial media can bent the truth.
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Westminster spends £13Billion a year decommissioning nuclear. Over ten years £130Billion.
Hinkley Point years late and over budget. Funded by Chinese loans. HS2 years late and over budget. Funded by Chinese funding.
Westminster refused to£1Billion investment in CCS at Longannet, Fife. Scotland is covered in coal. Westminster refused investment in Gas CCS at Peterhead. The Oil companies were funding it. The technology could have been sold on.
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just some examples…
Fire risk from scrap metal cargoes | NorthStandard | Marine Insurance
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so if the experimental cutting up of the Rosyth 6, goes off disaster free, what’s the chances the Devonport 9 will be towed round the coast for the same treatment?
I mind back when Devonport and Rosyth went head to head for the multi million refit contract for the nuclear subs, Rosyth lost despite having everything in place ready to go.
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will never ever happen
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LABOUR RISES TO THEIT USUAL LEVLS OF LIES
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