nuclear-news

Calls to check atom test veterans’ children – Sunderland Echo

Calls to check atom test veterans’ children
Sunderland Echo 27 October 2008

Calls have been made for relations of Britain’s nuclear test veterans to be checked for potential genetic damage.

North Durham MP Kevan Jones will consider researching the possible damage caused to children and grandchildren of those exposed to radiation 50 years ago.

His pledge comes after a House of Commons debate that revealed similar research in New Zealand found that effects had been passed down generations. ………………………………Up to 20,000 British troops and thousands of their Commonwealth comrades took part in a series of atomic and nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s on Christmas Island in the Pacific and Montebello Islands, Maralinga and Emu in and around Australia.

The British Nuclear Test Veterans are bringing a class legal action against the MoD in January over claims its members suffered rare cancers and other illnesses from radiation exposure.

Calls to check atom test veterans’ children – Sunderland Echo

Tags: nuclear, antinuclear, rafioactive, uranium

October 28, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment