Seanad debates

Wednesday, 2 July 2003

Dr. Barnaby also saw the possibility of a terrorist flying a plane into the plant at Sellafield. Previous speakers have also referred to this. Dr. Barnaby saw this possibility as a major and real threat. He said such an attack would have devastating contamination consequences over a very wide area. He estimated that upwards of 3.6 million people could die as a result. His views were supported by two other scientific reports, one by Dr. Large – I am unsure of the author of the third. All concluded that terrorists could easily identify the most dangerous parts of the plants from publicly available information and crash aircraft into them, releasing vast amounts of radiation.

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