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subscribe For readers who take out a year's inland subscription we are offering a free copy of Hard Times, a new book in the 'Arguments for Socialism' series by Send to Socialist Action, 328 Upper Street, London N1 2XP. Bob Suteliffe. The book normally costs $2.50.
Alternatively we are offering Alan Freeman's book, The Benn Heresy. For new readers there is our special introductory offer of 8 issues for £2. All subscriptions are osted first class on day of publication. THE GOVERNMENT'S PLAN to dump nuclear waste at Billington on Teeside or at Elstow in Bedford has provoked alarm among local residents.
They are right to be frightened. The 'intermediate level waste', which the nuclear industry produces at the rate of 3000 tons a year is to be stored either old mine disused ammunition The authorities say this assurance haywil that come as no comfort to the people of Teeside who already put up with petrochemical, gas, oil, nuclear and othel installations in their area.
The truth is that there is no safe level of radioactivity. The history of nuclear power Is one ol disaster, disease deception.
The nuclear industry is a threat to our but even worse it is a threat to our lives.
We can still remember the Three Mile Island. At Canvon the USA the industry built a reactor on a fault in the earth's crust, but were forced to close it when they discovered that cooling system had been installed back to front.
Nor have nuclear disasters heen limited the capitalist countries. In 1958 there sion of nuclear wastes near USSR All crops, animals houses were destroved anc the population evacuated more than 200 kilometres from the scene of the explosion. The death toll remains a secret to this day.
but I is nor ony uni risk of catastrophe that dangers. The effects on our health are even mor insidious. The incident of is much nigher in Windscale than elsewhere UK. contamination is now of all Suntan Darl marine foods.
Exhaustion it is not true that nuclear energy is really needed. The exhaustion of fossil fuels is a long way off electricity always be generated using wind water solar power. It is hard to resist the view • that one reason the government favours nuclear power is to break the strength of the coal miners one of the most combative sections of the British working Civil There is not a distinct civil nuclear JUWCI industry separate from the people that produce nuclear weapons. Any country that has a reacto has the capacity to pro duce nuclear warheads and the civil and military sides to the industry have fed oft each other An ICI worker on Teeside summed it uT when he said, 'They would nuclear under 10 Downing Street would they?' Too right. The fact is that if people had the right to decide whether or not there would be nuclear installations near where they live there would be no dumps reactors anywhere.
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