State ready for nuclear disaster - Taoiseach

Ireland’s emergency services are primed and ready for a nuclear disaster, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil today.

State ready for nuclear disaster - Taoiseach
Wed, 26 Apr, 2006 - 16:08

Ireland’s emergency services are primed and ready for a nuclear disaster, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern told the Dáil today.

Mr Ahern dismissed Opposition concerns on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident that the state was ill-prepared for any fallout from the Sellafield nuclear plant.

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