Marianne Birkby Reports from Silverdale, UK
Last time Silverdale was in the news was the BBC’s wildlife programme Autumn Watch. Today it is in the news because the same area experienced a nuclear waste train crashing into a car on a level crossing. The car traveled for around 300 metres stuck underneath the train. Thankfully the passengers in the car had got out before the train arrived. No one was reported as being injured (in the short term) apart from the understandably traumatised nuclear train driver. The “train remained upright” and was carrying empty flasks. However it is not just the flasks loaded with spent fuel that are cause for concern. The National Radiological Protection Board has pointed out that empty flasks and even the trains carrying them have been found to be radioactively contaminated on arrival at a nuclear plant for loading with spent fuel**. The only reason the spent fuel is loaded on trains to travel through towns and villages to Sellafield is because of continued reprocessing. The nuclear industry is excellent at dislocating cause from effect and illnesses resulting from nuclear flasks hurtling around the country towards Sellafield to reprocess spent fuel that no- one wants, may ( or may not) take years to manifest. Collateral damage to keep the nuclear industry on track?
*http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/empty-nuclear-train-crashes-into-car-at-silverdale-level-crossing-1-6373751
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/10937169.PICTURE_from_the_scene__Rail_line_re_opens_after_train_crashes_with_car_near_Silverdale/?ref=var_0
** pg 164 Nuclear Juggernaut the transport of radioactive materials by Martin Bond
Nuclear Juggernaut: The transport of radioactive materials (Energy and Infrastructure Set)
Nuclear Juggernaut: The transport of radioactive materials (Energy and Infrastructure Set)
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Stop and Contain – Reprocessing at Sellafield is Insane
http://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/stop-and-contain-reprocessing-at-sellafield-is-insane/
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