Radical group takes to Dublin streets this weekend

This weekend, the city centre of Dublin will witness scenes of a simulated nuclear reactor core meltdown

The immediate effects on the populace and an attempted mass evacuation drill following a major accident in Sellafield will be simulated.

Organised by the radical anti-capitalist group Globalise Resistance, it aims to highlight the inadequacy of any emergency plan Minister Joe Jacobs and the Irish government have organised.

Joe Carolan, a facilitator of the event, says: "Recent extensions to Sellafield like the THORP and MOX plants and increased traffic in the Irish seas of ships en route laden with radioactive waste, mean that it is not a question of if, but when, a serious accident will occur. "