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Hilda Murrell was abducted on the 21st of March 1984, as she prepared to testify at the Sizewell B Nuclear Reactor Inquiry. She was found dead on the 24th of March. https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/the-murder-of-hilda-murrell-an-abiding-mystery/

According to her nephew, Robert Green, “Hilda had conferred with Don Arnott who, uniquely among anti-nuclear scientists, had discovered a serious flaw in the control rods of the US nuclear power plant design which had failed at Three Mile Island, but which Thatcher was determined to build. His concerns were later endorsed by Dr Edward Radford, chair of the TMI Scientific Advisory Board. At the time key leaders of the nuclear industry supporting Thatcher’s plans took a close interest in what Don knew; he was tipped off that he was under surveillance, and some documents went missing. Before he could testify at the Sizewell Inquiry, he nearly died of a suspicious heart attack. In June 1985 he…