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Chernobyl Reaction 8-9 Is Shining 1 Contents Comment Stop T orness 3 The 29 March editorial in the 'Economist' How the recent T orness campaign has argued that while the oil glut lasts, there developed by STEVE MARTIN. should be heavy investment in nuclear power: News 4-6 Dounreay News 7 "the time to repair the roof is when the sun Chernobyl Reaction 8-9 is shining". On the 26 April the nuclear How the disaster affected this country roof was blown away when Chernobyl exploded and how officialdom has misinformed the public by LINSA Y STEPHENSON. the myth of "safe" nuclear energy. Far from The Way Forward 10-11 "getting stronger every day", the case for SCRAM's Ten Point Plan for a safe nuclear power has been unequivocally refuted. energy future by PETE ROCHE. Even the 'Economist' can change its mind: Risk Assessment 12-13 A demystification of the nuclear the 24 May editorial declared that we are industry's confusing language of risk not so dependent on nuclear power that "a by PETER FLOYD. decision to abandon it would cripple Dounreay News (continued) 14 civilisation"; the price of doing without Appropriate Technology 15 Combined Heat & Power 16-17 it is not unbearable. The solution to generate employment and reduce reliance on nuclear power Opinion polls throughout Europe show that by AORIAN A TKINSON. Man Fights Back ••••• 18 the people have rejected nuclear power. The The campaign to close Sellafield which politicians are following suit: it will win no has developed on the Isle of Man by votes. Governments from the Phillipines to ROWAN ROSS. Sweden are halting their nuclear Spot the Euphemism 19 A cartoon strip by OBERON programmes: they will have a head start in Little Black Rabbit, Listings 20 the race for a clean earth. Commitment to nuclear power is no longer symbolic of a nations prowess, it merely serves to expose a complacent allegiance to a barren utopia. LINSA Y STEVENSON became active after the Chernobyl disaster. She has two children. In Europe only two Governments have stayed PETE ROCHE is a founder member of SCRAM faithful to the Nuclear god: France and the PETER FLOYD works with Environmental Resources UK. These are the only two countries with an Ltd. "independent" nuclear weapons capability. ADRIAN A TKINSON is the co-ordinator of SERA's CHP campaign. Spain maintains that it is cheaper to stop ROWAN ROSS is a member of the Isle of Man's construction until the plant is needed, campaign against Sellafield. than it is to complete and operate a plant OBERON are WILF PLUM and ANDY WISHART below optimum load factor; Austria is dismantling its Zwentendorf reactor; Holland has shelved its expansion plans; and in West Germany an extensive period of This journal is produced for the British anti­ Nuclear and Safe Energy movements by the navel contemplation is in progress, with Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace the possbility that a new government could (SCRAM) scrap much of the planned expansion. Editor : Thom Dibdin News: George Baxter Yet the UK proceeds, as if in a vacuum, with Graphics: Wilf Plum T orness and Heysham; with THORP; with the Layout: Andy Wishart public inquiry at Dounreay; and with the Typesetting: Sarah Cantelo imminent ordering of Sizewell B. "The Way Rally Organiser: Steve M<Ktin Campaign Manager: Lou Weber Forward" (centre pages) gives SCRAM's ten point plan for the way forward for a safe SCRAM, 11 Forth Street, Edinburgh EH1 3LE energy future: the abandonment of all the Tel: 031 557 4283/4 current projects must take the highest ISSN 0140 7340 Bi-monthly priority. The Stop Torness campaign could inflict sufficient delay to hold up Oeadline for the next issue: commissioning untill the next election; Articles 18 July, News 25 July Dounreay may yet fall ot the final hurdle (~ 1986 SCRAM collective and contributors because of the collapse of European collaboration; all the opposition parties NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: have said that they will not commision As of the next issue, your names and Sizewell. addreses will be kept on a computer for maUling purposes. Please contact the SCRAM office if you have any objections. Together we can halt the nuclear madness. 2 SCRAM Journal June/July 1986 Instollotlons Inspectorate wrote: "Although full details of the STOP TOR NESS! emergency arrangements hove not yet been submitted to the Nil, we A concerted campaign calling for the halt of the South of expect that the detailed plans wlll extend to ot least 1km from the Scotland Electricity Board•s (SSEB) Torness nuclear power station." After Chernobyl ot least station has developed since the Chernobyl disaster. It has 100,000 people were evacuated from been joined by the Lothian Regional Council, the four Kiev, o city some 80km from the station. District Councils within Lothian Region, the Scottish Area The Lothian and Borders Police National Union of Mineworkers {NUM) and the Edinburgh and Fire Boards ore particularly Evening News. STEVE MARTIN outlines the campaign. concerned about the minimal public protection which the plan provides. The Fire Brigade ore also worried The campaign was initiated by a NOT NEEDED that they don't hove the facilities group of anti-nuclear activists In for dealing with o Chernobyl-type Edinburgh who approached the Lothian At the Torness Public Inquiry in fire. Regional Council with Information 1974 Mr Tombs, then the Choir of A 1980 study by the Political on the imminent commisionlng of the SSEB, claimed that to fulfil Ecology Research Group indicated Torness. This followed a local future electricity demand "we would that o catastrophic accident at meeting In Ounbor, attended by need five large new power stations Torness could cause over 300 early about 150 people, which passed o to be either In operation or under deaths and 25,600 fatal cancers unanimous vote of "no confidence" construction by 1990 and with o within 30 years; and four million In the SSEB, who refused to turn further five or six power stations people from Edinburgh and Glasgow up. by the year 2000." may hove to be evacuated. Since The NUM called o press briefing, Demand was expected to double by Chernobyl the authors of the report with representatives from the 1985 and treble by 1995. However, hove said that the original figures environmental groups and all the the total number of units delivered may be underestimated. political parties (bar the Tories), to the system in 1985/6 was 20,865 which called for work on T orness to million compared with 19,220 million NOT CHEAP be halted and o study to be started in 1973/4. This represents on Increase to look at the viob!Uty of converting of only 8.5%. Torness has cost about £1,500m the plant to cool-firing. During this period the installed to build and will employ 600 full Lothian Region also hosted o capacity In Scotland Increased from time staff. It has been estimated press conference with the other 6,113MW to 7,940MW, o rise of about that about 2500 miners' jobs could councils, which coiled for the 30%. If more evidence were required go, together with another 1500 jobs construction to be halted. They one only needs to look at the point in the service sector, if Torness Instructed the Regional Solicitor of greatest demand on the system. comes on stream. There will also be to pursue legal methods to delay On 7 January 1986 this figure was job losses at Cockenzle cool-fired the plant's commissioning. -4,536MW; the overcapacity on that power station which may hove to day (surplus plant) was 75%; if close because of overcapacity on PUBLIC OPPOSITION Torness hod been commissioned the the system. figure would hove been 104%. Quite clearly Torness nuclear The Regional and East Lothian power station Is not the cheapest District Councils organised a public NOT SAFE way to generate electricity when meeting In Ounbor which attracted one takes all of these factors Into 400 people. Unions and opposition The safety or otherwise of the consideration, before one even groups were on the panel os well os plant has received much attention looks at actual generating, waste council members. In the woke of Chernobyl, and the management, and decommissioning The most significant contributor main focus has been the emergency costs. to the debate was Or Preston, the plan. So for only o "draft" pion There is o simple answer: STOP Deputy Choir of the SSEB. This has been produced. TORNESS NOW before we take on represented the first opportunity In o reply to SCRAM, o Deputy irrevocable step down the rood to o In many years for the public to Chief Inspector at the Nuclear nuclear wasteland. hear both sides of the Torness debate at one meeting, because the Board hod consistently refused to shore o platform with opposition groups. The third component of the Stop T orness campaign is the Edinburgh Evening News. On Friday 30 May the paper ran o one page editorial entitled "Put the brakes on Torness NOW". Two weeks later it published an opinion poll with o front page headline which screamed "YOU answer the nuclear question •.• NO!" Of the people in Edinburgh and East Lothian questioned, 70% did not wont the plant to go ahead (only 2% were undecided). The following week the views of ten MPs in the oreo were published: SEVEN of them ore bocklng the campaign. The opposition to T orness Is on three levels: need, safety and cost. The need argument con be clearly demolished by examining the SSEB's own Annual Reports. I PICTURE BY JOHN REIACH J SCRAM Journal June/July 1'/86 3 •News Leukaemia The subject of leukaemia clus­ reay, not forgetting, of course, ters around nuclear establishments the notorious cluster around Sella­ is a controversial one.
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