Nuclear poison and politicians greed.

As I have always thought the UK nuclear programme has been linked to the US. These links travel right through the industry. Dounreay was an experimental fast breeder reactor which was used for many US/UK experiments which is why it was sited on the North coast of Caithness, who cares if we poison North Britiain, the same as we did Gruinard, it is just peasants and sheep there?

As someone who grew up in Sutherland in the 50s, the lie that was spread regarding Dounreay at the time was that electricty would be produced that was to cheap to meter, and that in a few years the Highlands would be rewarded with free power. This was a direct copy of the propaganda being spread at the same time in the US.

On an equally poisionous subject, Capatain Darling is refusing to step into the culture of greed infecting the banks, as we hear yet more disgusting news of the proposed RBS bonuses to be paid, using money from the tax payer. And then we read of the MPs continued gorging at the tax payers trough. This time in the shape of Jaqui Smith, enough to put you of your porridge.

Another inextricable link between two groups of greedy self interested elite trough gorgers. They are removed from reality and live in a bubble of avarice and envy constantly gloating over the latest story of corporate greed and excess, lusting after the big bonuses and life style they hear about on the old boys grape vine. There is no difference between these people and Russian Mafia. The politicians dare not stop these bonuses, where then is there for failed politicians to go when they get kicked out of office?

Nae nukes here.

Top-secret document reveals Trident was set up to kill half of Moscow’s citizens

By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor

The UK deployed Trident nuclear missiles because they could cause the total breakdown of Russian cities by killing half their inhabitants, according to a top-secret document passed to the Sunday Herald.

THE UK DEPLOYED TRIDENT NUCLEAR missiles because they could cause the total breakdown of Russian cities by killing half their inhabitants, according to a top-secret document passed to the Sunday Herald.

To ensure that the warheads inflicted "unacceptable damage" on Moscow and St Petersburg, the government was prepared to explode them at ground level to maximise lethal levels of radioactive contamination.

These revelations are considered so sensitive that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has tried to cover them up in case they hamper current plans to replace Trident. Senior officials are still carrying out the same kind of "Dr Strangelove arithmetic", critics say.

The decision to adopt the Trident system was taken in 1980 by the then prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.

As a result, up to 200 warheads are now stored at Coulport on the Clyde and deployed on submarines.

But the assumptions behind the decision have been a secret until now. They are revealed in a document prepared in 1978 for the then chief scientific adviser to the MoD, Professor Sir Ronald Mason.

The UK’s nuclear policy is to “deliberately maintain ambiguity about precisely when, how and at what scale we would contemplate use of our nuclear deterrent”, according to a report from the Foreign Office last week

This document, among others, was removed from the National Archives in London last year at the insistence of the MoD, which says they had been released in error. But it had already been photographed by nuclear researcher Brian Burnell.

Stamped "top secret" on every page, it describes the level of "generalised destruction" the UK would be prepared to wreak on Russian cities in order to deter a nuclear attack on the UK.

The key criterion, it says, "is based not on destroying the whole city or killing a specified number of people, but instead on creating sufficient damage to bring about the breakdown of the city as a functioning community."

This could be accomplished, the document argues, by inflicting "severe structural damage" across 40% of a city. If the bombs were exploded in the air above the city, this would be likely to kill at least 40% of the inhabitants instantly and seriously injure a further 15%.

But the document then points out that up to 30% of city populations could be sent to underground bunkers. These would protect people against bombs exploded in the air, it says, but not those detonated at ground level.

"Ground-bursts would subject 55-60% of the city to a radiation dose sufficient to cause rapid debilitation followed by death for most people in the area, and to contaminate food, water, air and both damaged and undamaged buildings," the document states. "Residual radiation would remain a hazard for many years to come."

According to a Foreign Office report last week, the UK's nuclear policy is to "deliberately maintain ambiguity about precisely when, how and at what scale we would contemplate use of our nuclear deterrent."

John Ainslie, co-ordinator of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, accused the government of deliberately hiding the document to avoid a proper debate on replacing Trident. "They don't want anyone to think seriously about the possible targets of British nuclear weapons or the consequences of using them," he said.

"So long as this country deploys nuclear submarines, there will be officials somewhere carrying out the Dr Strangelove arithmetic required to target these horrific weapons of mass destruction."

Rusting nuclear submarines in Rosyth.

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If there is just one reason required for Scotland to secede from the UK, it is this image of 7 rusting nuclear submarine hulls in Rosyth Naval Dockyard. http://tinyurl.com/b6oadk

There are many many other valid reasons. But this sums up Londons imperialistic view of Scotland. http://tinyurl.com/b6oadk

Sorry guys we are taking all the lucrative refitting work down to Devonport, but you can have the poisonous scrap. http://tinyurl.com/b6oadk

Oh yes and we will also berth the active subs there and all the nuclear missiles very close to the most heavily poulated part of Scotland.

The Union Dividend. http://tinyurl.com/awhpwx

We really don't care if it is also close to the most deprived children in the EU, or that your health in that area is one of the worst health records in the EU, and most of you live on state benefits, here take that jocks, http://tinyurl.com/awhpwx.

Have some Union Dividend. http://tinyurl.com/awhpwx











The reactor left on board remains intact (apart from the removal of the spent fuel modules). It is highly radioactive and classified as Intermediate Level Waste. The estimated amount of ILW is 850 tonnes per vessel (at Devonport total of 3,400 tonnes of radioactive waste in reactor compartments, at Rosyth 5,950 tonnes - combined total 9,350 tonnes). ILW include radioactive carbons, tritium, cobalt-58, zirconium-95, and cobalt-60. The radioactive coolant is also left on board as processing this through the ion-exchange system normally undertaken during refit would only give workers unnecessary doses of radiation. The 'removable' radioactive waste is around 160 tonnes.

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