Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Nuclear Power Plants: Discussion with Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland

2:50 pm

Dr. Ann McGarry:

I apologise to the Deputy. I might not have explained myself correctly. The tanks at Sellafield are like swimming pools above ground. I have seen them myself and their integrity is not very good. If these swimming pools were to disintegrate, all of their contents would be released into the local environment. While this would be an absolute catastrophe for people living in the local area and the local environment, our view is that, given our distance from the site, the amount of radioactivity that would reach us in that scenario would be insufficient to pose a significant health risk.

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