NOVEMBER 2007
Handstand Special edition on Nuclear Facilities, Campaigns and Science
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russian report
What security is in practice for nuclear facilities
world-wide?
Does the security of these facilities interest people, that is: citizens; and is the security public knowledge or secured by the unforeseen errors of surprise, such as that fatal error when Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian peacefully going to work met his death?
This edition of Handstand is concerned with radiation and nuclear information and news. However as a preliminary it is necessary to take an interest in political security, as on account of the latent possibility of a Chernobyll event it is a national government that must take responsibility for the damage, both immediate and long term, of the citizen. Is this fact recognized? And why when the British Government sold off the Sellafield facilities were there no public queries or even the appearance of anxiety about the regulation of arrears of responsibnility?
Professor Wolfgang Sützl has written a crucial text
that has been printed by CTheory which I pirate and
reproduce here on the modern concept of security. This
text gives us more reason for apprehension than any other
that I have read recently - it is certainly essential
reading for the subject of radiation security which has
only been secured by governments in the manner of a Ban
on testing of Atomic Weapons that is so lax that Depleted
Uranium Weapons used by the USA have now laid waste
possibly for generations many of the water aquifers in
Afghanistan and the many arrears of bombed desolation in
Iraq. The use of these weapons is a War Crime against
which there is apparently no security and no recognition
by the general public. Much as there is no public
information source that keeps the world's citizens up to
date on research, except for remarkable individuals whose
names invest all public protest on this matter.
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU)
particles escaped from the National Lead
Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was
manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military.
The particles traveled 26 miles and were
discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard
Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to
a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing
morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the
atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of
contaminated properties costing over 100 million
dollars. |
J.Braddell. October 2007