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Windscale Fallout (1978)
| Author | Ian Breach |
| Date | 1978 |
| Classification | 2.05.8.30/11 (UNITED KINGDOM - SELLAFIELD - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
1 Introduction On 15 May 1978 the British Parliament made a momentous decision. By a majority of 144 votes, it ratified the Government's granting of permission to British Nuclear Fuels Limited to construct a plant for the reprocessing of spent fuel from nuclear power stations in the UK and overseas. The reverberations of that decision will be felt by millions of people around the world and in many aspects of their lives. Its consequences will last for longer than the recorded history of our species. This book attempts to explain the decision and the events that have led up to it, including the Windscale inquiry - the longest nonstop exercise in public participation yet held in England. The controversy over whether a reprocessing plant should be built at Windscale or indeed anywhere else has become the arena for fundamentally and intensely differing views of the way the modern industrial state should develop. In both its conclusions and the way in which they were expressed, the official report on the Windscale inquiry, written by its chairman Justice Parker, is a focus for the controversy. It has been accepted by the Government, approved by the House of Commons and applauded in most of the press. It has also been received and read with disbelief and anger, frustration and condemnation by scientists, lawyers, churchmen and members of the UN, and by almost the entire environmentalist movement.
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