Irish Protestors chained at Sellafield

national | miscellaneous | news report

Saturday September 14, 2002 11:02

by Tim - Gluaiseacht

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At the time of writing 11am Saturday Morning the visitor centre has been closed to the general public and Police have arrived with cutting equipment.

Anti- nuclear activists have this morning occupied the visitors centre at Sellafield. The activists are members of an Irish environmental and social justice called Gluaiseacht.
They say their action is in objection to the many scandals and malpractices of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, which runs the plant in Cumbria.
Protester Tracey Ryan said “we have chosen the occasion of the return of the rejected MOX shipment to highlight the dangers, incompetence and dishonesty of the nuclear industry”.
In the early hours of Saturday morning the group climbed up onto the Visitors Centre roof and dropped banners proclaiming the visitor centre to be a disinformation centre and calling on BNFL to “tell the British public the truth”.
Activist Chris O’Keefe said “BNFL is playing dangerous games with people’s lives and their money. This MOX shipment is being returned because BNFL falsified safety data. £470 million of taxpayers’ money was spent building a MOX plant that nobody wants. Enough is enough.”
Gluaiseacht have protested on a number of occasions at Sellafield, highlighting the dangers to people on both sides of the Irish Sea, which is considered to be one of the most radioactive bodies of water in the world.
Dozens of countries have already protested at the MOX shipments passing by their shores. The group calls upon British and Irish people to work together to end reprocessing and begin to decommission Sellafield.

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