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The Ministry of Defence is reopening a 30-year-old inquiry into a series of deaths and serious illnesses at a chemical weapons factory in Cornwall amid accusations that the original report was the subject of a high-level cover-up. The MoD's decision follows a vigorous campaign by local activists to get the case looked at again and a series of articles in the Independent on Sunday which highlighted 41 deaths and a high incidence of serious illness among workers at Nancekuke, which produced deadly Sarin B nerve gas.
The MoD is also carrying out an environmental survey of the site after it admitted for the first time earlier this year that equipment used to manufacture Sarin B had been dumped in mine shafts and a quarry.
Nancekuke, near the holiday village of Portreath, served as a top-secret chemical research establishment for 20 years after the Second World War, supplying nerve gas to Porton Down. It was built using laboratory equipment recovered from Nazi Germany. Since 1970, the MoD has maintained that Nancekuke poses no health threat. An official report 30 years ago into the deaths of the 41 workers claimed that was in line with the national average. A second study, Sickness Experience at Nancekuke, which looked at medical records between 1959 and 1969, was suppressed. It showed staff at the plant were 33 per cent more likely to suffer from serious illness and 50 per cent more likely to suffer from respiratory diseases - a classic symptom of nerve gas exposure.
Dumping occurred from 1948 to 1982. Seventy-eight percent of dumping in the Atlantic was done by UK (35,088 TBq), followed by Switzerland (4,419 TBq), USA (2,924 TBq) and Belgium (2,120 TBq).
originally posted by: Malak777
a reply to: ThePeaceMaker
I just found out about the dumping of nuclear waste into the ocean off Land's End. It did happen. Here is all the info on that,
en.wikipedia.org...
Dumping occurred from 1948 to 1982. Seventy-eight percent of dumping in the Atlantic was done by UK (35,088 TBq), followed by Switzerland (4,419 TBq), USA (2,924 TBq) and Belgium (2,120 TBq).
Nuclear Dumping Sites Map
It is still all there. Appararently there are many sunk nuclear submarines too. This is all adding up to one big present and future catastrophe. Look at the cancer prevalence now in people. I bet it was not like this before the nuclear age.
We are indeed killing ourselves. Even the very richest will not escape this. What fools humanity are. We are not clever.
originally posted by: snoopyuk
a reply to: ThePeaceMaker
if you check out 28 days later an also the groups on FB, you can some photos of the place ;-)
great post by the way.
snoopyuk