Belfast Telegraph - Sellafield plan opens old wounds
Belfast Telegraph: "Viewpoint: Sellafield plan opens old wounds
11 April 2006
Although the proposal for a new, more powerful nuclear plant at Sellafield is only included in a consultation report for Cumbria County Council, it has raised all the usual fears. The government is a long way from making a decision on a new generation of power stations, but the anti-nuclear protesters are already flexing their muscles on both sides of the Irish Sea.
Who is right and who is wrong in the long-running argument over the benefits or dangers of nuclear power? Even the experts do not agree, let alone those with axes to grind, so the public is left looking at the past record of the industry and wondering if it is capable of safely meeting the energy needs of the future.
Safety is the key word, especially for those living along the Irish Sea coast, who have long worried that routine and accidental discharges from Sellafield are damaging to human and marine health. Although nothing has been proved conclusively, the Irish Sea has been described as one of the most radioactive in the world, and there are hot spots of cancer which many attribute to nuclear pollution."
11 April 2006
Although the proposal for a new, more powerful nuclear plant at Sellafield is only included in a consultation report for Cumbria County Council, it has raised all the usual fears. The government is a long way from making a decision on a new generation of power stations, but the anti-nuclear protesters are already flexing their muscles on both sides of the Irish Sea.
Who is right and who is wrong in the long-running argument over the benefits or dangers of nuclear power? Even the experts do not agree, let alone those with axes to grind, so the public is left looking at the past record of the industry and wondering if it is capable of safely meeting the energy needs of the future.
Safety is the key word, especially for those living along the Irish Sea coast, who have long worried that routine and accidental discharges from Sellafield are damaging to human and marine health. Although nothing has been proved conclusively, the Irish Sea has been described as one of the most radioactive in the world, and there are hot spots of cancer which many attribute to nuclear pollution."
posted by Greta Jane at Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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