Dumping radioactive mud in Cardiff Bay. Press Conference 13Feb2018
Channel: drdrwoland
Date: 2018-02-14

There is an application to dump 330,000 tons of radioative mud dredged from the Hinkley Point site in the Severn Estuary 2 miles from Cardiff. The Welsh Assembly Government must give permission. Recent studies by Green Audit show the mud to be radioactively contaminated and also data from the government to omit evidence of the full load of radionuclides present. In particular, evidence of the presence of Plutonium and Polonium-210 was removed from the data. Chris Busby analysed the raw digital spectra and raised the issue. Recent discoveries of large numbers of radioactive particles in the mud near Sellafield have re-energised the issue of the health effects of inhalation and ingestion of these uranium, americium and plutonium alpha emitting particles. hot particles like these never existed throughout evolution but the new evidence, obtained by employing alpha track plastic film, reveal the very large number of such particles in teh environment. Nuclear power stations, like Hinkley Point, release about 500 million Becquerels of Uranium contaminated particles to the air every year, according to tables published by the United Nations. It is probably exposure to these particles which are the origin of the increased rates of cancer, child leukemia and infant mortality in downwinders and those living near the contaminated mud which exists close to these nuclear sites.