The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been attacked for planning to increase discharges of radioactive waste into the Firth of Clyde by up to 50 times.

Posted: 4th March 2021

An application by the MoD to overhaul waste disposal from the Faslane and Coulport nuclear bases near Helensburgh suggests that radioactive discharges could rise sharply as more submarines are stationed there.

The liquid waste comes from the reactors that drive the Royal Navy’s submarines and from the processing of Trident nuclear warheads. It will be discharged from Faslane into the Gareloch nearby via a proposed new pipeline.

Future annual discharges of tritium, a radioactive waste from reactors and bombs, were listed as 175,000 megabecquerels. This is 30 times higher than discharges in 2018 and 13 times higher than average annual discharges between 2013 and 2018. 

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