NUCLEAR HEALTH SCARE SPARKS OUTRAGE

Greens today expressed their anger over the latest nuclear safety scare. The nuclear dump site at Drigg in Cumbria' (a mere six miles from the controversial Sellafield nuclear plant) has been declared a long term health hazard.

Officials from the Environment Agency warned that radiation levels at the dump could far exceed acceptable levels should further waste be dumped on the site. (1)

Children's Health "Already At Risk"

Local Green Councillor and Sustainable Development expert John Whitelegg
commented:

"Already the area surrounding Sellafield is the most radioactive in the world with a staggering rate of childhood leukaemia; a shocking ten times the national average." (2)

"For the government to attempt to present nuclear power as a safe' clean solution to the problems of climate change in the light of such evidence is an outrage. This discovery is the latest in a long line of evidence to emerge which s