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Allan Dorans: Scottish Labour’s support for nuclear fuel poses a risk

THE Labour candidate for the Central Ayrshire constituency at the next
General Election is supported by the GMB Scotland trade union. The GMB is a
champion of the nuclear fuels industry and of nuclear weapons.

The Labour candidate for my constituency of Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock will follow the
UK Labour Party line which supports Trident and is calling for new nuclear
power stations in Scotland.

My party, the SNP, is firmly opposed to both.
Just last month, The Guardian released a video explaining why the
Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria, a short distance down the
coast from my constituency and upstream from it, is “Europe’s most
dangerous industrial site”, pointing out that Sellafield has failed to
contain numerous threats, including a cybersecurity breach by groups linked
to Russia and China and of growing physical cracks in its “most hazardous
facility”. In 2016, researchers at Glasgow University reported
“enhanced” radioactivity levels, in shellfish catches, at a number of
coastal locations in Cumbria, near the Sellafield plant, and on the west
coast of Scotland, including the village of Maidens, in my Ayrshire
constituency.

The National 12th Jan 2024

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24044322.allan-dorans-scottish-labours-support-nuclear-fuel-poses-risk/

January 14, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK