TWO UK Nuclear Accidents in Just a Few Days
Fukushima | 21.04.2013 11:32 | Ecology | Workers' Movements
A fire at a nuclear power plant triggered a major response by emergency services after smoke was seen billowing into the air. Police and fire crews were called to Hartlepool power station at about 6.30pm on Saturday after a blaze broke out while a turbine was being reactivated.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/21/hartlepool-nuclear-power-plant-fire
Groundwater at a nuclear power station has been found to contain a radioactive substance above agreed levels. EDF Energy, which owns and operates Dungeness B in Kent, said the tritium was found during routine sampling.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22214120
The issue of nuclear safety isn't just to do with ecological damage and with the State's grotesque attitude towards public safety, the nuclear industry was also promoted as an important arm of the nuclear weapons infrastructure, and to provide the UK with non-Unionised providers of electrical energy (in other words, to source electricity from an industry whose workers wouldn't stick up for themselves). Now, of course, even worse, these "services" are privatised.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/21/hartlepool-nuclear-power-plant-fire Groundwater at a nuclear power station has been found to contain a radioactive substance above agreed levels. EDF Energy, which owns and operates Dungeness B in Kent, said the tritium was found during routine sampling.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22214120 The issue of nuclear safety isn't just to do with ecological damage and with the State's grotesque attitude towards public safety, the nuclear industry was also promoted as an important arm of the nuclear weapons infrastructure, and to provide the UK with non-Unionised providers of electrical energy (in other words, to source electricity from an industry whose workers wouldn't stick up for themselves). Now, of course, even worse, these "services" are privatised.
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