Hinkley’s Nuclear Mud : Westminster Cover Up

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Imperial College Professor Proves Plutonium leaked into the Estuary for decades  

Emeritus Professor and distinguished research fellow at Imperial College London, Professor Keith Barnham last night presented undeniable evidence of plutonium having leaked from Hinkley Point’s waste pipe into the Estuary for decades.

The evidence is contained in UK Government’s report NRPB-M173, which contradicts the latest position of Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

In 2018, the Labour-Led Welsh Government gave the green light for 120,000 tonnes of mud from Hinkley Point nuclear power station to be dumped just one mile from Wales’ capital city, Cardiff. 80,000 tonnes were finally dumped.

Now, plans for a further 780,000 tonnes of mud from Hinkley Point into the Severn Estuary is set to take place next year as part of plans to build the controversial new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near the sites of Hinkley Point A & B.

In the bombshell presentation hosted by WNP leader and fellow campaigner Neil McEvoy MS, Professor Keith Barnham of Imperial College London alleged a ‘Westminster cover-up’, whereby the UK Government stopped testing for plutonium shortly after a spike in the early eighties.

He also criticised the Welsh Government and Natural Resources Wales for failing to produce an Environmental Impact Assessment and for relying on ‘bad science’. Micro-particles once deposited on the shoreline, can be blown up to 10 miles inland.

Neil McEvoy, Leader of the Welsh National Party said,

” In light of Natural Resources Wales’ latest statements, the smoking gun is the UK Government’s report NRPB-M173, showing extremely high levels of plutonium in the waste pipe into the estuary, crucially without a corresponding spike in gamma radiation. The rationale given by Natural Resources Wales for not testing for plutonium or alpha radiation back in 2018 is that there had been no gamma spikes in the gamma testing carried out. Report NRPB blows the Welsh Government’s position out of the water. It shows that high levels of plutonium, alpha radiation can be present without high levels of gamma radiation.

Plutonium is heavy and I am advised will not travel far, but would have settled on the mud. According to Report NRPB-M173, there was plutonium being discharged for decades. How on earth could the Welsh Government accept a testing regime, which did not test for the plutonium we know was discharged into the estuary?

It is also crucial that the Welsh Government comes clean and tells us what mud was dumped in 2018. Was it the mud immediately near the waste pipe, or was it from elsewhere?

The consideration of the dumping licence must be suspended, until a full Environmental Impact Assessment is carried out, with rigorous alpha testing for plutonium. Plutonium was flushed into the sea, so where did it go? It is highly probable that it settled in the mud. ”

Professor Keith Barnham said,

“We are looking at taking legal opinion on this waste because I think it is an extremely serious matter that Westminster is giving incorrect science about a situation of great importance to the health and safety of the people and residents of South Wales.

“the mud around the estuary of Hinkley Point Nuclear Power station contains at least ’30 million million (30 trillion) microparticles’ of plutonium.

“What we know from this Westminster report is that all the plutonium leak consists of particles the size of less than 5 microns.

“That is extremely important and extremely dangerous because at Sellafield, outside the processing plant where they similarly blown into the Irish Sea, 1-2 sized micron plutonium particles have been observed to be blown back in sea-spray onto the shore.

” Here’s the real crunch that’s most important, 1-2 micron size is small enough to be inhaled and cause serious health problems like cancer”

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