UK considering company related to Chernobyl for Anglesey Nuclear project.

Run_to_da_hills

After hearing this the government should now seriously consider replenish its current stocks of iodine tablets and also the possibility of handing out grants for fall out shelters.

"The idea of the keys to Britain’s next generation of nuclear power stations being handed to a giant company run by the Kremlin should have been greeted in Whitehall with absolute horror.

After all, the Russian power generator Rosatom is not an unknown quantity. It is the successor company to the operator of the Chernobyl nuclear plant which exploded in 1986, killing 64 people from radiation, with another estimated 4,000 deaths attributable to the accident and casting a toxic cloud over much of Western Europe.

Also, the company, headed by Boris Yeltsin’s former Cabinet colleague Sergey Kirienko, has been instrumental in assisting the rogue state of Iran to build up its nuclear capability".

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2128437/Meltdown-The-idea-entrusting-nuclear-future-firm-built-Chernobyl-parcel-Britains-bankrupt-energy-policy-real-danger-imploding.html

EDIT BBC Version. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17682322

cocoshovel

dailymail...eh

The King of Moo

"rogue company" "Boris Yelstin" "Iran" "nuclear"

This seems like such an extremely terrible combination of things that I actually think it would probably be fine.

Nothing could actually be that scary.

ted1

300,000 thousand people a year die as a direct result of fossil fuel plants. 2 million people were displaced by the building of the three gorges dam.

Second and third generation plants are very different than Chernobyl.

Daily mail don't do stories they do sensational jouralism.

Canis Lupus

Can we have a nuclear forum that you can post in about nuclear issues and that no one else can see?

44leto

Its in Russia's interest that Europe foregoes Nuclear energy, they export most of our fossil fuel to us.

mikemac1

Where's Dick Roche, we need him back

Senna

OP, why do you feel the need to post these rubbish, non-story threads??

the_syco

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

It is the successor company to the operator of the Chernobyl nuclear plant

Successor being the key word in that sentence.

D1stant

Maybe the Irish Wildlife Trust could employ them also?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wildlife-thriving-after-chernobyl%E2%80%99s-nuclear-disaster-%E2%80%93-study.html

skinny90

Ara sure well be grand...

bgrizzley

mikemac1 wrote: »

Where's Dick Roche, we need him back

no need for nuclear, just plug him into the grid.

Millicent

The King of Moo wrote: »

"rogue company" "Boris Yelstin" "Iran" "nuclear"

This seems like such an extremely terrible combination of things that I actually think it would probably be fine.

Nothing could actually be that scary.

If they had have managed to include "single mothers", "immigrants" and "political correctness gone mad", we could have had a winning line on the Daily Mail bingo card.

RichieC

That article touches all the fear bases. it only needed to mention unemployed mothers and immigrants and it would have been a home run.

ted1

ted1 wrote: »

300,000 thousand people a year die as a direct result of fossil fuel plants. 2 million people were displaced by the building of the three gorges dam.

Second and third generation plants are very different than Chernobyl.

Daily mail don't do stories they do sensational jouralism.

Chernobyl only blew because they tried testing the fail safe system, by breaking it!

ted1

Well that was one of the factors,

Jumpy

cocoshovel wrote: »

dailymail...eh

run_to_da_hills...eh

AboutTwoFiddy

So what your saying is the company has experience in dealing with disasters?

lividduck

Another scaremongering non-story from the Daily Mail!

Run_to_da_hills

lividduck wrote: »

Another scaremongering non-story from the Daily Mail!

It may yet find its way into the Evening Herald.

AboutTwoFiddy wrote: »

So what your saying is the company has experience in dealing with disasters?

Experience in cover ups more to the point.

It was staff at a Swedish Nuclear plant that first discovered excessive high levels of radiation at their own plant and then found out that it was coming from the former Soviet Union direction.