The NFLA have co-operated with Nuclear Information Service, Nukewatch and CND to jointly organise a seminar to consider the post-Fukushima nuclear emergency planning regime and recent concerns raised in the media over the safety of nuclear weapon convoys from Aldermaston to Faslane and Coulport. The seminar will take place in Glasgow City Chambers 10.30am – 1pm, Friday 20th September.
This seminar, kindly hosted by Glasgow City Council, will consider the impact of the Fukushima disaster in reference to current UK nuclear emergency planning guidelines and whether there are any potential gaps in these arrangements at both military and civil nuclear sites. It will also consider whether there are adequate safety arrangements in place in the event of an emergency affecting a convoy transporting nuclear weapons from Berkshire to the west of Scotland. A recent article in ‘The Guardian’ of the MOD’s ‘Exercise Senator’ raised a number of significant concerns and the seminar will highlight them.
Confirmed speakers for the seminar include Peter Burt from Nuclear Information Service, Rob Edwards a freelance journalist for ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Herald’, Jane Tallents from Nukewatch and the NFLA Secretary. We are also inviting the Scottish Government’s Civil Contingencies Unit and MOD staff responsible for guidelines around nuclear weapon convoys to speak at the seminar, or at the very least provide written statements of policy.
Please see flyer: http://www.nuclearpolicy.info/docs/events/NFLA_joint_seminar_September_flyer.pdf
