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Leukaemia Clusters Poisoned Pacific Leukaemia Clusters Poisoned Pacific -contents Torness: The Waste Remains 3 Comment Inquiry report biassed against With the completion of Rosalie Bertell's speaking objectors by Steve Martin News 4-7 tour to promote her book NO IMMEDIATE DAN­ NPT- No Peace Tomorrow (4) 8 GER, it is perhaps time to review the campaign Nuclear power and non-proliferation on the health effects of low level radiation. The by Jos Gallacher interest generated by Rosalie Bertell was remini­ Campaigning on Clusters 9-10 scent of that which followed the tour by Helen The Campaign on radiation and Caldicott in October 1980 - the Caldicott tour leukaemia in Severnside by Jo Worsnip helped spawn the Medical Campaign Against Radhealth Campaign 1G-11 Nuclear Weapons in this country. The background to the radiation The issue of radiation and health concerns and health campaign by Tony Webb us all; it represents another link between nuclear Rosalie Bertell speaks out 12-13 power and nuclear weapons campaigning; it is An interview with the Radhealth a way of involving the industrial and medical campaigner by Elizabeth Burns workers• organisations; and it can give nuclear Radwaste and ENSEC 14-15 free zones a platform on which to make a stand. Under seabed burial proposals The leak from Windscale in October 1983 and by Don Arnott the Yorkshire TV documentary which prompted Radwaste- Poison for the Pacific 15-16 the Black Report"have made a key issue of rad­ The nuclear threat to the Pacific health. The identification of 'clusters• of leuk­ Peoples by Steve Martin aemia cases close to nuclear installations has Computerised Coal Mines 17 intensified the opposition to nuclear power, de­ The threat of new technology in spite industry statements of 'within the realms the pits by Pete Roche of statistical probability' and •undetectable above Tidal Power- A Reply 18-19 normal background'. The case for the Severn Barrage We have set aside five pages in this issue for by Or Tom Shaw radhealth campaigns: a description of the cam­ Appropriate Technology 2G-21 paign in the south west; a discussion of the issues Reviews 22-23 at stake; and an interview with Rosalie B~rtell Diary, Little Black Rabbit 24. and a review of her book. The strands of these articles should be brought together at the 'Med­ Jos Gallacher is a freelance researcher on pro­ ical Effects of Low Level Radiation' Conference liferation issues. in Gloucester on June 15/16th. A report of that Tony Webb works with the Trades Union Radi­ Conference will appear in the next SCRAM. ation and Health Information Service. Jo Worsnip is a member of the Severnside Cam­ paign Against Radiation Elizabeth Bums is a member of Edinburgh Books Frank Cook M.P. Collective. House of Commons Don Amott is a former Consultant to the Inter­ Westminster national Atomic Energy Agency. London SWJA OAA Pete Roche is a memberof Edinburgh Draught Proofing Co-operative. Dear Campaigners, 1 write belatedly to record my deep appreciation of the Dr Tom Shaw works with Robert McAipine & support and encouragement offered to the community of Bill­ Sons Ltd. ingham in its struggle to oppose the NIREX suggestion that radio active waste should be stored in the disused anhydrite This magazine is produced for the British Anti-Nuclear anct mine below the town. Safe Energy movements by the Scottish Campaign to Resist The community campaign was a long and arduous one, but the Atomic Mer~aee (SCRAM). the hardship experienced merely made the eventual victory. SCRAM, 11 Forth Street. l:dinburgh EH 1 3LE. so much more magnificent. This sustained effort, crowned Tel: 031 557 4283/11. by final triumph, would not have been possible had it not been Editor: Steve Martin for the backing offered so willingly by you and people like you. Layout: Wilf Plum Billingham will be eternallly grateful. Typesetting: Rosie Bell News Editor: George Baxter Yours sincerely, Reviews Editor: Rosie Bell Frank Cook ISSN 0140 7340 Bi-monthly. House of Commons Deadline for next issue - articles, 5th July, news, 12th July. 2 SCRAM Journal June 185/July '85 ""'TJISCHARGEO FLASK DANGER- 80001 .!~; 0 0 S 4 CLASS 7 llllo.. -*::--1-"-l~.::.. Torness ~The Waste Remains D "' ~· The first part of the Report of last year's safety and radiological risk brought to Torness spent fuel transport Inquiry has the Reporter's attention by ELDC, very been published. (An earlier draft was few were eventually included in the a­ released for comment by the Scottish mended Report. The Sandia Laboratory Office Inquiry Reporters Unit in March.) experimental work on flask integrity per­ The draft contained a large number of formed in the US and presented to the errors, but many of the comments re­ Sizewell Inquiry was cited in the draft ceived by George Maycock, the Principal as if to prove the Torness spent fuel Reporter who presided over the Inquiry transport would be safe. This work con­ at 0181bar in October, referred to omis­ cerned a more robust flask, of a differ­ accident occurring. Nevertheless, the sions. Most of the complaints have been ent shape and casing and for carriage Reporter saw no reason to amend the ignored as 'outside the scope of the in­ of a different type of fuel, and hence paragraph. Such a vital omiSSIOn quiry'. reference to it In the Findings of Fact prompted ELDC to note: 'Such a state­ One of the main objections of the is irrelevant and misleading. The para­ ment does not fill the District Council Report is that of procedure - a complaint graph was amended to include: 'The with confidence with regard to the im­ which arose several times during the In­ flasks used were of a different design partiality of the Report'. quiry and the period running up to it. to the AG R flasks to be used in connec­ Much emphasis was placed at the In­ lt appears that some of the objecting tion with Torness, but otherwise com­ quiry on earlier discussion of spent fuel parties failed to receive a copy of the plied with IAEA regulations.' (14.46) transport. Mr Justice Parker's Windscale draft report: the Fire Brigades Union, The Reporter chose to Illustrate the Report of 1977 was cited: 'spent nuclear the National Union of Public Employees, period in which the fatal whole body dose fuel (transport to Windscale) was exam­ the Tyneside Anti Nuclear Campaign ined in course of the Windscale Inquiry' and the Scottish Ecology party (as well and the Inspector 'found that he was sat­ as numerous individual objectors) were isfied on the evidence that it created therefore excluded from the initial con­ "no significant risk" '· (14.9) The Wind­ sultation process. SCRAM's copy of the scale Inquiry did not examine in detail draft was sent to the home of the indi­ the consequence of a flask accident and vidual representative at the Inquiry in­ not a single calculation of consequence stead of the office, despite our address was presented to the Inquiry. According being on all our proofs of evidence. to ELDC, this represents finding on the lt could be argued that in the inter­ strength of 'incomplete or ill-considered ests of economy, distribution of the 150 knowledge'. page draft should be limited, but a short letter to all objectors informing them Government Policy that the draft was lodged in a public building and available for consultation Because of the on-going Sizewell B and comment before the deadline is the Inquiry at the time, Mr Maycock wrote least that one could have expected. in his preamble that it would be 'point­ less and presumptive' to 'examine and Serious Criticism analyse that being undertaken' at that . The Report itself raises many import­ Inquiry despite the difference in the de­ ant questions. Of more than 20 sign of the fuel flasks under considera­ comments raised by East Lothian Dis­ tion. He does point out to Mr Younger trict Council (ELDC), the principal ob­ that 'consideration of any adjustment jector, only 4 have been incorporated to adopted national policy' will be into the final form of part 1 of the Re­ founded on evidence heard at Sizewell. port's so-called Findings of Fact. Mr So, the Sizewell Report may be useful Maycock will now consider the evidence to the Scottish Secretary in making his and submit his Report, along with his decision. But Mr Maycock's recommend­ reasonings and conclusions (part 2), to would be received from a ations to him will probably be formulated George Younger, the Secretary of State totally-collapsed flask as 80 hours by before the Sizewell Report is published. for Scotland, for his decision. The de­ referring to only one distance from the Also, Mr Maycock describes Central cision is not expected for some months source- SO'm. He was compelled to add, Government policy as being one of re­ yet. 'reducing at a distance of 3.3m to 18 processing commercial reactor spent In his Findings of Fact Mr Maycock minutes' (14.48) following strong repre­ fuel at Windscale, despite the fact that seemed to be mesmerised by the Inter­ sentation by ELDC and the Fire Brigades the facility to perform this work - national Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Union (after it was brought to their at­ THORP (Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Regulations and included no mention of tention by the Council). Plant) - is at least seven years from experts' fears that these are inadequate, These adjustments are what the con­ completion, and the commercial treat­ or that US regulations are more strict. sultation period was for, it is true, but ment of Tomess-type spent fuel has yet Whilst admitting that 'slight surface con­ what about those objectors who did not to be successfully demonstrated.
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