Stichting Laka

Publicatie Laka-bibliotheek:
The Windscale File

Auteur	Greenpeace
Datum	1982
Classificatie	2.05.8.30/06 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - SELLAFIELD - ALGEMEEN)
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THE TIME BOMB IN A NATIONAL PARK

Windscale is the world's nuclear dustbin - a lethal time-bomb set amid the sublime 
landscape of the Lake District in Cumbria.
No other country permits an operation like Windscale on its own soil: it is the single 
most polluting nuclear establishment in the world, menacing the health and lives of 
the Cumbrian people and posing an immense threat to our fragile environment. This 
booklet is intended to alert the public to these dangers and we hope, to help bring 
about changes in the operation and far-reaching safeguards which will protect 
human lives and the natural world alike. For Windscale represents all that is wrong 
with the nuclear industry and with the kind of society it promotes.
Locked up behind the barbed wire fences and armed security guards of Windscale 
is enough radioactive material to lay waste huge areas of northern England in the 
event of an accident, which would cost tens of thousands of lives through radiation-
induced cancers and related diseases. Constant vigilance is required to contain this 
radioactive material. And yet, despite all the precautions, a series of accidents have 
released large quantities of radioactivity into the environment and shaken the 
confidence of ordinary people in the nuclear industry. 
People fear Windscale- and with good reason. They distrust the apologists for the 
nuclear industry, who have consistently failed to tell the truth about the Windscale 
operation or its failings, and who have dealt instead in half- truths, evasions and 
abuse. People wonder, too, whether their health, their livestock, their fields and 
food, their seashores and the very sea itself are daily being poisoned by the 
continued and deliberate discharge of radioactive material, or by those accidents 
which have plagued Windscale and the nuclear industry since its inception.
The arguments in this booklet are by no means alarmist. Cumbrians have been 
exposed to unparalleled levels of radioactive contamination since Windscale began 
operating. As many as 150 people are estimated to have died as a consequence of 
this deadly contamination.

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