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Windscale Fallout

Auteur	Ian Breach
Datum	1978
Classificatie	2.05.8.30/11 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - SELLAFIELD - ALGEMEEN)
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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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