Re: Scottish Beach Beside Nuclear Plant Contaminated, BBC Says

[William V Lipton <liptonw@dteenergy.com>]

This is credible.  I remember a colloquium, circa 1977, where a British scientist at a
UK nuclear installation stated that high effluent levels were common knowledge.  He
stated that some scientists, as an informal experiment, used to go out for a meal of
local seafood, and then get whole body counted to see what turned up.

(But, of course, it's not our fault that the public doesn't accept nuclear technology.)

The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com

Sandy Perle wrote:

> Scottish Beach Beside Nuclear Plant Contaminated, BBC Says
>
> Edinburgh, April 28 (Bloomberg) -- A public beach beside the Dounreay
> nuclear power plant in Scotland contains a higher number of
> contaminated particles than previously thought, the British
> Broadcasting Corp. reported on its Web site, citing the beach's
> owner. The monitoring carried out by the U.K. Atomic Energy
> Authority, which owns the plant, hasn't picked up all of the
> contaminated particles, the BBC said, citing owner Jeffrey Minter who
> commissioned an independent report. A nuclear particle the size of a
> grain of sand was found on the beach last month, the BBC reported.
>
> British Nuclear Fuels Plc, which runs the Sellafield nuclear
> reprocessing plant, said last month the U.K. government won't sell a
> stake in the company before the second half of 2002, due to concerns
> about safety data.
>
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