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Today marks the 100 years of the Easter Rising, which proclaimed the Irish Republic, and ultimately culminated in the Republic of Ireland. Opting out of Empire gave Ireland the chance to be nuclear free. If Ireland had not liberated itself from the yoke of the British Empire then almost certainly all or most of the UK’s nuclear facilities, nuclear waste, and nuclear subs would be located in Ireland because the UK government has generally tried to distance these facilities from London. Freedom has not, however, been able to protect Ireland from pollution of the Irish sea by the UK’s nuclear facilities and nuclear subs. On the Irish Sea, Sellafield “raises the question of how a country can try to protect it self against invading pollution from a neighboring state…” http://www1.american.edu/ted/SELLA.HTM


http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1999/act/23/section/18/enacted/en/html

It is easy to guess the areas where the UK would have put its nuclear facilities and…