Wednesday 30 September 2015

Dump it in the sea and hope no one notices - but what if they find out?

It comes to something when a film which is made about the waters surrounding the United Kingdom is shown on German television, French television, but not on English television.
What have they got to hide in this country... and where have they hidden it?
The film, entitled "Radioactive waste: dumped and forgotten" is being shown at the International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin tonight. It was directed by Thomas Reutter and Manfred Ladwig and is an Arte, SWR, German, production. It looks at our legacy of nuclear waste dumped in the sea, and the effects on the health of people living on the local coasts and the practice of pumping nuclear waste through pipes out to sea.
This is a powerful documentary and it can, fortunately, still be seen on YouTube.  The link is to the English version and I cannot recommend it too highly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_lzoYl9AU
I hope it will continue on tour with the Uranium Film Festival.  These are facts which should be known, not buried.  This is history which is not just in the past; we are living it today and so, especially, are the children.




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