A nuclear dumping ground ?
The Westminster Government have turned
Scotland into the biggest nuclear arsenal and the biggest nuclear dump in
Western Europe, if not the world. Trident nuclear submarines are based at
Faslane, and all British nuclear weapons are stockpiled at Glen Douglas, both
bases are less than 20 miles from Glasgow, the largest Scottish city with a
population of around 700,000.
Can you imagine the outcry if these
weapons were stored within 20 miles of London ?
Dounreay nuclear reprocessing plant near Thurso is a convenient 600
miles from London. Westminster has been incredibly secretive about Dounreay's
true role, but it has now come to light that weapons-grade material from around
the world has been stored at Dounreay for years. In fact, new contracts have
just been negotiated, which involve sending nuclear waste from Germany, England
and the US to Scotland for storage. Potentially from the US alone, up to 15,000
spent fuel rods will be dumped on Scotland.
Scotland has been a
nuclear dustbin for too long. High grade waste from Sellafield and weapons
from Faslane have already been regularly transported around Scotland by road and
rail, through the centres of major cities and towns.
The US,
Germany and other countries don't want the problem of their own nuclear waste,
because their populations are against it, so, Westminster has kindly given them
Scotland. This is riding roughshod over the Scottish people who are
overwhelmingly against their country being treated as a nuclear
dump.
Even the once anti-nuclear Labour Party have now promised to keep
nuclear weapons on the Clyde. Well Scotland says
"If London wants nukes, why not store them on the Thames?"
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