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Opposition to UK Naval nuclear waste dump

UK port becoming ‘nuclear dumping ground’  TwoCircles.net  23 February 2010 – 12:12pm. * InternationalBy IRNA,London : Europe’s largest single issue peace organisation is warning the British government against plans to use a naval dockyard base as a centre for dismantling radioactive submarines.The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has voiced concern about the safety record of Devonport dockyard in south-west England and its position in the middle of Plymouth city as being inappropriate site as a ‘nuclear dumping ground.’
“A city-centre location is no place to cut-up and store redundant nuclear submarines,” said CND chair Kate Hudson.

“The toxic legacy of these subs is a real problem, but dismantling them on a site literally a couple of hundred metres from homes and schools must not be allowed,” Hudson said.

“The health risks posed by a project that could continue for 60 years or more are potentially enormous, with Devonport already having a troubled history of radioactive leaks,” she warned.

UK port becoming ‘nuclear dumping ground’ | TwoCircles.net

February 24, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes