Nuclear Accident Exercise Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' Emergency Test: Disaster Scenario Emergency Test: Disaster Scenario Response Would Have Spread Deadly Radioactivity
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MISTAKES made during a major nuclear accident exercise held in Edinburgh last year would have left real casualties trapped in vehicles and spread deadly radioactive contamination, an official report has revealed.
Serious communication failures between the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Scottish emergency services led to blunders that in a real nuclear incident could have had fatal consequences.See the full content of this document
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Nuclear Accident Exercise Reveals 'Fatal Flaws' Emergency Test: Disaster Scenario Emergency Test: Disaster Scenario Response Would Have Spread Deadly Radioactivity
Previous exercises over the past 10 years have thrown up similar problems.
But nothing seems to have been learnt from them, campaigners said.Exercise Senator 2005 imagined a catastrophic chain of events involving Trident nuclear warheads on the move.The exercise was based around an aircraft engine falling out of the sky on to a weapons convoy, whic...See the full content of this document
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