Campaign against Sellafield
Last updated at 13:55, Friday, 30 October 2009
CAMPAIGNERS from Norway descended on Westminster to demand Sellafield be closed down amid fears an accident at the site would cause devastation across the globe.
The group claimed the quality of the radioactive waste is poor and they fear there will be an accident at the site.
Frank Storelv, from Oslo, said 90 per cent of wind blows from the south west and if there was an explosion or accident at Sellafield, one or two days later the radioactive waste would be carried to the west coast of Norway.
Mr Storelv said: “It would be 50 times more radioactive waste from a Sellafield explosion than Chernobyl. The Norwegian government is writing to the environment minister to set out concerns over the situation. We want Sellafield closed down and a decision has to be made here in parliament.”
Mr Storelv, who is part of campaign group Neptune Network, said: “We really believe that even the British government are afraid of this situation and the possibility of an accident. Closing Sellafield is the only solution.”
Copeland MP Jamie Reed, who used to work at Sellafield, said the protest was a stunt. He said: “I expect this is an attempt to re-hash the Sellafield debate in Norway for the benefit of the new Norwegian government but it’s really very old news and there is no need to protest.
“These issues won’t be progressed by indulging in science fiction-style scenarios or scaremongering. I’m not aware of anyone in Britain who runs similar campaigns against the radioactive discharges Norway’s oil and gas industry puts into the marine environment and perhaps Neptune aren’t fully aware of the UK taxpayer-funded nuclear clean-up work on the Norwegian-Russian border either.”
He added: “Sellafield is a highly complex plant. The highly active liquor plants, to which I assume Neptune are referring, are subject to rigorous monitoring and are currently being reduced as the most pressing priority of the UK government and the NDA. I would ask Neptune to place dialogue and understanding over pantomime theatrics – they may be pleasantly surprised. It’s good to talk.”
First published at 13:13, Friday, 30 October 2009
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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Jamie Reed's spin doctoring is despicable. Far from being "old news" The Norwegian Government commissioned a report in March this year which concluded that with a " release of just
10% of the High Level Waste tanks' contents, it is calculated that the fallout would be 50 times the maximum level experienced in Norway after Chernobyl.......the British authorities have not provided Norway with any specific information indicating that such an incident can be ruled out".
( and Church) to be talking about putting new nuclear reactors in the vicinity of the worlds most ferociously volatile nuclear wastes (ever increasing with continued reprocessing)
is insanity that is off the moral richter scale.On the publication of the report, Norway's Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim commented: "There has been concern about Sellafield for a number of years in Norway, and this is why I asked the Radiation Protection Authority to draw up a report on scenarios for the release of radioactivity from the plant. I believe we need to know what the worst-case consequences of a major accident at Sellafield could be."
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Jamie Reed's spin doctoring is despicable. Far from being "old news" The Norwegian Government commissioned a report in March this year which concluded that with a " release of just
Jamie Reed says such an "incident" is impossible because of tough "regulations" . Just one month after the Norwegians report - which Jamie Reed said was impossible - the scenario the report described actually happened - there was a loss of cooling water to the High Level Liquid waste tanks and Cumbria was a matter of hours away from catastrophe.For Jamie Reed and the unholy alliance of government, industry10% of the High Level Waste tanks' contents, it is calculated that the fallout would be 50 times the maximum level experienced in Norway after Chernobyl.......the British authorities have not provided Norway with any specific information indicating that such an incident can be ruled out".
( and Church) to be talking about putting new nuclear reactors in the vicinity of the worlds most ferociously volatile nuclear wastes (ever increasing with continued reprocessing)
is insanity that is off the moral richter scale.On the publication of the report, Norway's Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim commented: "There has been concern about Sellafield for a number of years in Norway, and this is why I asked the Radiation Protection Authority to draw up a report on scenarios for the release of radioactivity from the plant. I believe we need to know what the worst-case consequences of a major accident at Sellafield could be."
http://www.nrpa.no/internett_eng/index.asp?topExpand=&subExpand=&strUrl=//applications/system/publish/view/showobject.asp?infoobjectid=1005998&channelid=1000079
Posted by marianne birkby on 1 November 2009 at 17:18