Public must ‘wake up to Sellafield disaster threat’

IRATE students yesterday swapped their usual garb for what they labelled the new post-Sellafield disaster clothing range to highlight their concerns at having a nuclear plant so close to Ireland.

Public must ‘wake up to Sellafield disaster threat’

Masks and protective clothing will not just be worn for protests, but will become an essential for all if tragedy strikes at Sellafield, the Union of Students in Ireland warned.

Members abandoned their start-of-term preparations yesterday to protest outside the British Embassy in Dublin to highlight the continued threat posed to Ireland by a potential terrorist strike or a disaster at the Sellafield MOX plant.

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