{"id":8,"date":"2008-03-25T06:39:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T06:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rahu.dk\/martynlowe\/?p=8"},"modified":"2010-06-22T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T21:17:00","slug":"an-untold-history-on-nukiller-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"An Untold History on Nukiller Power."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the following piece some while back, &amp; but still think that it says a lot about Nukiller Power.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Odile &amp; Sir John Hill.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The stupidity of those that advocate nukiller power, &amp; yet<br \/>\nwonder why the industry continues to foul things up, is a<br \/>\nconstant wonder to me.<\/p>\n<p>During the period from 1974 &#8211; 1982 I was very active within<br \/>\nthe Greenpeace ( London )* campaign to stop nukiller<br \/>\npower.<\/p>\n<p>When in 1977 the public enquiry to build the BNFL ( British<br \/>\nNukiller Fools ) Thorp reprocessing plant at Windscale<br \/>\nwas announced, we held a &#8216;mutants march&#8217; in celebration<br \/>\nof the outcome of the enquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Also around that time the British council of churches<br \/>\ndecided to hold an enquiry into the idea of building fast<br \/>\nbreeder reactors. I was one of the people from G.P. that<br \/>\nwent along to leaflet the event.<\/p>\n<p>As it worked out only Odile Girard &amp; myself could make<br \/>\nthe event, &amp; so we had our work cut out. ( As an aside it<br \/>\nmight be noted that Odile subsequently went on to work<br \/>\nfor the Couseau society in New York. )<\/p>\n<p>While leafleting the building in which this event was being<br \/>\nheld, I noticed 3 people had gone into the building, &amp; then<br \/>\ncame out to pick up one of my leaflets.<\/p>\n<p>These 3 included Sir John Hill ( Head of the U.K. Atomic<br \/>\nEnergy Authority &#8211; UKAEA ), &amp; his deputy Sir Walter<br \/>\nMarshall. ( N.B. At that time the UKAEA was responsible<br \/>\nfor Windscale. )<\/p>\n<p>On the leaflet was a reference to the 1957 fire at<br \/>\nWindscale.<br \/>\nMarshall noted this &amp; said:<br \/>\n&#8221; Oh, that was nothing !<br \/>\nI was there at the time myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My only thought to that remark was something like :<br \/>\n&#8216; Nothing ?<br \/>\nSo what else has gone wrong that could match that ?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Thus recent news about problems with BNFL comes as no<br \/>\nsupprise to me.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not news to those of us who have always said that the<br \/>\nplace should be closed down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; April 2000<\/p>\n<p>* G.P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the following piece some while back, &amp; but still think that it says a lot about Nukiller Power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}