Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!mcvax!steven
From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Lockport Blast: safety of oi - (nf)
Message-ID: <5930@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 09:29:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: mcvax.5930
Posted: Mon Aug 13 09:29:15 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 08:12:13 EDT
References: <447@tty3b.UUCP>, <3400017@ea.UUCP> <4197@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 14

> Nuclear plants in fact emit very little radioactive material.

You should try telling that to the people who live near Windscale/Sellafield
in England. Some years ago there was a major leakage from there which they
tried to play down, but it was notable that they bought up ALL milk that was
produced in the region for several years afterwards. There have for many
years been other lower level leakages from Sellafield. Beaches down-current
from there were recently discovered to be dangerously radio-active (that it
they shut them off) and though they have now been re-opened, there are still
warnings against collecting things from the beach.
   You should add to this the suspiciously higher rate of leukaemia in
children in the district. When I lived in the region a few years ago, the 
daughter of some acquaintances of mine died from the disease, and there was
no doubt in their minds what the cause was.