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Nuclear crash exercise beset by blunders, says UK’s Ministry of Defence

Rob Edwards March 12, 2023

An exercise testing emergency responses to a nuclear bomb convoy crashing,
exploding and spreading a cloud of radioactive contamination was plagued
with “errors” and “confusion”, according to official assessments by
the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

There were shortages of vital medical
equipment, “poor” arrangements for casualties and multiple mistakes in
radiation monitoring. One set of radiation readings was wrong “by a
factor of 1,000 times”. At one point MoD firefighters ran out of water,
and at another an MoD commander refused help from the civil fire service.
There was no official assessment of whether or not the crash was caused by
a terrorist.

The Ferret 12th March 2023  https://theferret.scot/nuclear-crash-exercise-blunders/

March 12, 2023 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, UK