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Irish Politicians Join Protesters at Sellfield Mox Plant.

secretive | 20.12.2001 20:26

Protest at Sellafield MOX plant this morn.

The controversial MOX plant at Sellafield opened today. The plants opening follows in the wake of several high profile but failed legal actions against British Nuclear Fuels undertaken by the Irish Government and envoiromentalists.
The irish minister Joe Jacob called the opening 'an act of supreme arrogance'
In the past month the Fianna Fail/PD coalition government has undertaken a wide campaign against the developement in Sellafield, going so far as to take out a full page ad in English newspapers and allowing their youth wings to organise a protest outside the british embassy in Dublin, the turn out was insignificant.
Meanwhile today saw a demonstration of upwards of 100 people outside the MOX plant seeking to voice their concerns over the effect the opening of the plant where depleted plutoniaum and uranium will be recycled for further use by the Nuclear plant at Sellafield and other stations across Europe.
Among those who joined the protest was John Gormley of the Green Party and members of Gluiseacht.
Many grass roots activists against Sellafield are seeking to step up the campaign against the Sellafield complex to counter fears that the Irish Government and Fianna Fail are using the issue as an election ploy.

secretive

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22.12.2001 18:13

forgive my ignorence (and my english), but doesn't a neuclear power plant REDUCE the damag to the enviorment becaus it's making ALOT of power and reduce the need in many other power plants?

yorai ronen
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no

23.12.2001 14:29

That is a argument used by Phony Blair etc., Nuclear power is the solution to nasty 'ol fossil fuel power plants, to lessen the effect on climate change. Uranium processing afaik does not contribute substantially to climate change; but it does produce plutonium as a waste product, which is highly radioactive and difficult to deal with, which as the Norwegian people will attest to, severely affects the marine environment when dumped into the sea as is the case with Sellafield. It also gets into the food chain, the air, the land surrounding the discharge area and fucks people up with leukemia etc. And if anyone feels like causing a major catastrophe across most of western europe, flying a plane straight into Sellafield's stockpiles of "eh, now what are we going to do with this?" weapons grade plutonium is the way to go.

rowan

why not nuclear power?

15.02.2002 21:19


Nuclear power does get a lot of energy from a small amount of substance but the cost of this is immesureable. The waste products of fission (i.e. plutonium) are highly toxic to the environment and have a half life of 7 million years....which means it's going to be around for a very long time. The Irish sea has the highest level of radioactivity in the world of any sea, The release of nuclear , toxic waste into the irish sea has directly increased the rates of cancer related deaths on the east coast of ireland. I know that Nuclear fuel is "efficient"??? and "economic"?? and is supplying Britians National grid with electricity. However i think it's not right that people are dying in ireland so that people in england can switch the light on. Nuclear fuel may seem like the answer to our international energy crisis but we should be looking at why we need to use so much energy, The truth is we could live without Energy, it looks like the British Government wants us to die for it instead.

magee 02