Seanad debates
Wednesday, 2 July 2003
Nuclear Safety: Motion.
No matter what BNFL or the British Government say about Sellafield, nobody believes them. We have a responsibility to press the British Government on this issue. We can achieve this in the short term. Let us continue with court cases till the cows come home and we shall see how far we get. With my sceptic hat on, I do not think we will get far. However, if we demand that our regulatory authority has a 24 hour, seven days a week, 12 months a year base there, the members of which can go wherever they want in the plant and report independently, it would give credibility to the information coming from Sellafield. However, it might be that we might not like the information coming from our regulatory authority if it issued positive reports.
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