Iodate tablets for residents [nearby]

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Iodate tablets for residents
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Here's another (a different) tiff

Here's another (a different) tiff that is going on at the same time.

http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co. ... ticle.html

MP demands answers on N-sub work
Saturday, March 07, 2009, 10:00
A WESTCOUNTRY MP has pledged to quiz ministers over the cutting up of a major submarine reactor component at Devonport dockyard in Plymouth.

Earlier this week, the Western Morning News revealed a massive section of a Vanguard-class reactor is being dismantled at the yard.

Work on cutting up of the submarine reactor head from HMS Victorious, one of four nuclear-powered ballistic submarines which provide the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent, started two weeks ago.

Made of high-grade stainless steel, it weighs an estimated 28 tonnes and measures about nine feet in diameter and is three feet thick. It is classified as low-level waste.

Anti-nuclear campaigners have demanded that the work be suspended while an inquiry takes place.

They believe the Ministry of Defence should have consulted the public, as they had done on the Interim Storage of Laid Up Submarines project which will dispose of the reactors on seven redundant nuclear submarines currently afloat at the Navy base.
South East Cornwall Lib-Dem MP Colin Breed said: "This should cause a further consultation to take place before any decisions are taken.

"Perhaps Government thinks in current financial crisis and with announcement of new refit, they can get away with this sort of further storage of radioactive material at Devonport pending future decisions.

"Clearly I am not happy about this and I will be raising it with ministers next week."

The work has been agreed by both the Environment Agency and the lead regulator, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, part of the Health and Safety Executive.

Both are satisfied appropriate safety controls are in place. The Environment Agency stressed the work "poses no hazard to the public or the environment".

The MoD has confirmed all Vanguard-class submarines would have the reactor head replaced during refuelling work.

It has said that dockyard operators Babcock are "well equipped" to deal with the low level waste.

A spokesman said the waste was being removed "to nationally approved disposal sites". He said: "The waste arising from the disposal of a reactor pressure vessel head will be treated in similar manner and in accordance with the Devonport site licence conditions."