To the release of radioactive material in Loch Long, sea Lake near Glasgow, it was because the Royal Navy did not adequately maintain a network of 1500 water pipes, the supervisory body was determined, writes The Guardian.
Weapons weapons in the Loch Long is one of the safest and most secret military locations in the United Kingdom. It is stored in the supplies of nuclear warning heads for the Five Fleet of the Four Submarine Class Trident, which are anchored nearby.
Documents of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEA) suggest that even half of the components in the basis exceeded its projected life at the time of the leak. SEPA stated that floods in the Culport were caused by “maintenance shortcomings”, resulting in the discharge of “unnecessary radioactive waste” in the form of low levels of tritium, used in nuclear warheads.
The leaks were discovered in a series of confidential reports and emails, which, after a six-year legal battle, were submitted to the Research Portal of the Ferret and divided by Guardian. The Ministry of Defense and Sepa tried to prevent their publication, but the Scottish Commissioner for Information David Hamilton ordered their publication, claiming that it was an endangerment of “reputation”, not national security.
The Sepe documents show that the 2010 culport pipes came in 2010. And twice in 2019. years. One of the leaks in August 2019. dropped “significant amounts of water” that flooded the area for handling nuclear weapons. The water became contaminated with low levels of tritium and has expired through the open drain to Loch Long.
Although Sepa emphasized that the levels of radioactivity were very low and did not constitute human health, they found that “lack of asset maintenance and management” lead to unnecessary creation of radioactive waste. After internal investigation, the Ministry of Defense promised 23 measures to prevent future incidents, recognizing that the lack of preparation was caused by “confusion” and “lack of communication on dangers”.
However, in 2021. Two more pipes of shootings occurred, which prompted a new inspection. Sepa then stated that the progress in the implementation of the promised measures “was slow and in many cases delayed”.
David Cullen, a nuclear weapon expert from London Think Tank Basic, said the recurrent incidents are shocking, and attempts to cover their covering “scandalous”.
“The Ministry of Defense is currently implementing the infrastructure program worth almost 2 billion pounds in Faslane and Culport, and did not have a proper approach to nuclear weapons and is a direct consequence of the lack of supervision,” said index.hr.
Sepa said “satisfied” which Culport and Faslane made “significant improvements in asset and maintenance management” from the mentioned incidents, which did not repeat. Every year, the Agency publishes data on radioactive discharges, insisting that it “are not of regulatory importance”.
The defense ministry spokesman said to attach “the greatest importance to its responsibilities for safe and protected handling of radioactive substances. There was no insecure discharges of radioactive material in the environment in any phase.”
(Vijesti.ba)
