Sellafield report ‘ends nuclear debate’
Friends of the Earth Ireland have also called on the Government to raise concerns that Sellafield’s waste storage is more dangerous than Chernobyl with the British authorities at the earliest opportunity.
A report compiled for Friends of the Earth in Britain claimed the storage tanks used to keep nuclear waste at Sellafield is viewed as “the single installation most vulnerable to terrorist attacks”. The report also described the tanks as containing “far more dangerous radioactivity than the Chernobyl reactor”. Friends of the Earth Ireland director Oisín Coghlan said the report underlined the concerns that Irish people have always had about Sellafield. “It also significantly shows why nuclear power doesn’t make sense.” He hoped the report would help the British government end the nuclear programme. Environment Minister John Gormley said he will be asking officials of his department and the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland “to consider carefully the content... of this report” and to report back.
