Attempted terrorist attack on sellafield!

[HarrietJones]

that's a bit close to home.

Can't link as I'm on my phone but was just on BBC news. 5 men arrested.

here

Doesn't give much away yet though.

Found a full story. Not as big as BBC making out but they were filming security & were stopped

It sounds suspicious, but at this stage we don't really know whats going on. People have been arrested and released without charge before and the police can be excessively jumpy about innocent filming & photography.

After over 100,000 stops and searches using this legislation could the police have finally actually used it to catch terrorists rather than photographers for the sin of being too tall?

Scary. Hope the police were right to arrest them and that the people were terrorists and not innocent bystanders.

I just assumed they were Eco warrior types and the anti-terrorism laws were yet again being used for their intended purpose by mistake.

shit, half of cumbria could have been blown up!

I'm reserving judgement on this until more information is available. Right now, all it sounds like is some people being arrested for the crime of being foreign in a public place while in possession of a camera.

I have learned something, though - there's a special police force that just looks after nuclear sites. Who knew?

I have learned something, though - there's a special police force that just looks after nuclear sites. Who knew?

Well if that's right I'll sleep better! You really can't afford to be slack with this stuff.

I don't know what they hoped to achieve at Sellafield. It must be one of the most securely guarded places in the country.

They've been released without charge. So the anti-terror laws have maintained their track record of never being used to detain even a single terrorist and instead being applied to harass and detain photographers, protesters and those "unfortunate" enough to have the "wrong" colour of skin.

It would make little to no difference what happened to Sellafield considering they dump radioactive waste into the Irish sea at a rate of 2 million litres per day plus theres the reactor that went on fire in 1957 and even today has not been cleaned up along with the name change from Windscale to Sella field to try a bury the truth.

www.corecumbria.co.uk/tour/irishsea.htm

That's true enough. There's little the average terrorist could do to Sellafield that would cause worse problems than the ones they routinely cause all by themselves.

Why doesn't this get more publicity?

Sellafield is one of the biggest nuclear disasters that is still allowed to operate, the radioactive contamination has entered the food chain years ago and even Sellafield admit that the radiation levels in the Irish sea and in the Sellafield area are way too high, the recent disaster in China is small fry compared to what goes on under our noses at Sellafield. Have a look at this independant testing of the Irish sea, it might be a bit disturbing.. www1.american.edu/TED/SELLA.HTM
indigo.ie/~goodwill/icnd/power/Sellafield.html

I heard the 5 men were released without charge, perhaps they needed to get back for the demo outside the US embassy today and I dont meant the EDL demo.

that second link mentions the leak and fire had connections with downs syndrome!!

environmental factors cant cause this surely??

There were a couple of small studies fifty years ago that suggested there might be a link between exposure to ionising radiation and Down's syndrome. But I think more recent and much larger studies have shown that no such link exists.