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The Anti Nuclear & Safe Energy Wlndscale Pj the anti Nuclear & Safe Energy Wlndscale pJ 6 , CD cer ...Ql '< ~ / Ql ...n ;;r Contents COMMENT Comment P.2 A belated HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our readers and a HAPPY BIRTH­ Windscale DAY to the SIZEWELL INQUIRY, one year old on January 11th. SIZE­ 3 WELL now holds the record as the longest-running Public Inquiry. News 4&5 That other focus of Anti-Nuclear attention- WINDSCALE, was rarely Men and Greenham 6 out of the news in '83 despite such slick PR as changing its name! This Communication from issue bring$ you the latest. Persons Unknown 7 The cavalier attitude shown by the SSEB in pushing through its Pollution knows TORNESS AGR project in East Lothian continues to alienate local people and their elected representatives. Our local reporter uncovers the no borders 8&9 latest steamroller attempt by the faceless ones of Cathcart House. Letters 10& 11 Our interview this month is with French environmental activist DIDIER Acid Rain 12 ANGER, who outlines the changes, or lack of them, in France's Nuclear Appropriate Technology 13 Power and "Defence" strategy since the Socialist government got in. Reviews 14 Don Arnott's article on waste (SCRAM JOURNAL No. 39) provoked The Oxford Review 14& 15 quite a response. We publish readers' letters on this and other subjects. Last November saw the first national forum of Anti-Nuclear groups; we Little Black Rabbit 16 hope the improved liaison helps us all work more effectively against the & Diary Nuclear madness. Next SCRAM Journal (copy date Friday March 9th) hopes to start a This magazine Is produced for the Anti-Nuclear, Safe Energy and Dis­ Dl RECTORY of GROUPS and PUBLICATIONS. We've probably heard of armament movements In Britain by you, but just in case we have not (or get it wrong) please call us or write the Scottish Campaign to Resist the and give the NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE No. SPECIFIC INTERESTS, Atomic Menace. PUBLICATIONS and any events coming up. Tell us how to IMPROVE the SCRAM, 11 Forth St, Edinburgh 1. SCRAM JOURNAL, tool!! I!!!! I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCRAM is changing! As part of this evolution we need new people to Typesettlng by Joy Leys at SCP, 30 work full or part-time in the Office, shop and on the SCRAM Journal. Grindlay St., Edinburgh 3. (031- 229-3574). Please contact us if you can help in any way. Thank you in advance. Distribution by Scottish & North­ For some time now, Wed!'lesday has been Wimmins' Day in the ern. Books Distribution Co-op, 48a SCRAM office and in the Smiling Sun Shop. lt has been working well and Hamilton PI., Edinburgh 3. (03h we hope more Wimmin will call in on Wednesdays. 225-4950). JSSN 0140 7340 BI-monthly \, '~~ ,.,·~-" For information on Energy and Peace issues call in to the Smiling Sun Shop. Huge stock of literature on Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons and the alternatives to both •••• Books, broadsheets, badges, stickers, T-shirts, mugs, even cheque-books and practical energy-saving draught-excluders. We also run an extensive Mail Order Service (list free on request) and have a library full of essential reference books. Stiii~INf; SIJN 11 Forth Street, Edinburgh EH13LE Open 10 • 6, Mon • Sat. Tel: 031 557 4283 2 February I March '84 SCRAM Journal "WINDSCALE: THE ren of West Cumbria, one says that further reduced by then making things there is but that Windscale is not to even more difficult. This issue is NUCLEAR LAUNDRY" blame and another says he has not equally important to that of the ocean If the Yorkshire TV programme decided yet, he has not seen the evi­ dumping as it affects the long term frightened a few West Cumbrians then dence, but that he feels Or. Day is not future not only of our own nuclear the discharge of radioactive 'PUREX' right and that Windscale is not to industry but also of many foreign down the infamous pipe caused even blame! So much for the experts. The countries. more to sit up. Apart from those whose most important things - the Black Anyway it is the Irish Sea discharges main concern is over jobs (which is Inquiry and the Director of Public which are getting the attention be­ quite understandable) the vast major­ Proseeutions reports have yet to cause they are affecting people now. ity seem to be worried and confused. appear and at present much is up in We in Cumbria have enough to cope People are also angry, not only over the air. with regardless of possible spent fuel the beach ban, but also over the fine or reactor accidents. Press coverage on il'nposed on Greenpeace. British Nu­ BACK-TO-FRONT the issue has been very good and we clear Fuels (BNFL) are reacting and, The 'allowable' sea discharge levels have been inundated with letters and as with most people when they get of radioactivity have still to be review­ phone calls etc. (So if you are waiting things wrong, they are lashing out in a ed because the new 'SIXEP' process for a letter please be patient!) quite unusual way. Up until now BNFL (which might reduce the amount of Many other councils apart from have always tried to remain calm and Caesium in the discharges) is yet to Cumbrian ones are also taking an in­ cool, trying to make the anti-nukes come on stream. The levels will not be terest and some are taking advice on look bad. This time they have gone fixed until the capability of the pro­ the matter. Others have said they are overboard in trying to get back at us cess is seen. You may wonder at this willing to back the Action Group and instead of doing their job- i.e. making strange procedure. Yes, you have Greenpeace over the demand for a sure their factory is safe! They have guessed it - instead of the Depart­ reduction in Irish Sea discharges. branded us as lawless, but this has ment of the Environment telling BNFL Maryport District Council, for ex­ only brought a public reaction that per­ what levels to achieve they are letting ample, has taken advice on what to do haps we are justified if BNFL are to them spend £100m (on 'SIXEP') and with all the· radioactive contaminated continue polluting the sea. then they will set new limits. mud it has dredged up from the har­ bour. We have also had a great surge _LONG-TERM EFFECT BIG EXPERIMENT in interest from local based scientists who have offered their help in fight­ Tourism seems likely to be quite The local COUJlC::JI_g(!ve fj_qal planning ing BNFL, a significant thing we have badly affected. lt must be remembered permission to.~ (Subject of the to thank the company for. In fact it that the Ruthenium 106 on the sea­ 1977 Windscale Inquiry) in December. would be true to say that BNFL's weed is dangerous for up to 3-4 years lt should be built by the end of the de­ arrogance over not only the daily and will slowly work its way north to­ cade, if everything goes well, and then radioactive discharges, but also. the wards Scotland. Even the NRPB have they will experiment with reprocess­ 'PUREX' incident, have done as said that this stuff may be coming ing spent oxide fuel for a while. One much to help us as anything. ashore for a long time to come - so it snag here is that there is no country in No longer are BNFL dealing with the remains to be seen just when the the world which has solved the pro­ naive public of the 40's and 50's. beaches will be safe again. blem of commercial reprocessing oxide Finally there is one thing which On the question of the cancer inci­ f.u.el- why should the UK be any differ­ people seem united on: lower dis­ dence we have had a united front ent? THORP going on stream appar­ charges from Wlndscal~. That these from those scientists who advise us, ently also depends on SIXEP being are achievable (both technically and but the people who do not agree with able to bring the sea discharges down campaign wise) is not in doubt. The us have presented quite conflicting to 10th of the ICRP limits. THORP of only way we can really help the issue evidence. One says that there is no course is so far in the future that the is to make them happen sooner rather higher incidence of cancer in child- international limits may have been than later. Jean Emery, BADAGAINW. Contact: Barrow And District Action Group Against Importation of Nuclear Waste, 3A Slater Street, Barrow, Cumbria. SCRAM Journal February/March '84 3 -NEWS Porton Down END •1n GDR A £5 million Jaguar military jet exploded Support E. German Peace Activists. over Porton Down 'Chemical Defence In East Germany there are a growing Establishment' yesterday. The pilot bail­ number of people who disagree with the ed out and landed on the roof of the base's official peace campaign which lays the medical centre. According to the local blame for the prospects of nuclear annihila­ 'Salisbury Journal', "The bravery of a jet tion on the shoulders of the USA alone. The fighter pilot who crash-landed in a field unofficial peace activists, while supporting near Porton averted certain disaster on socialism, condemn the possession of Nu­ Iuesda¥Jligh1. " clear Weapons in both West and East and A new book from Pluto Press, 'No Fire, seek a dialogue with the state concerning No Thunder', (authors, Murphy, Hay and arms and militarism.
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