Military Nuclear Sites in Scotland and Climate Change

increasing storms and floods caused by climate pollution, according to a
new report. The nearby Trident missile store at Coulport and the nuclear
submarine graveyard at Rosyth, on the Forth, are also likely to be damaged
by rising waters in the future, the report says, along with six other
nuclear sites in England. There is a “significant risk” to stockpiles
of military radioactive waste from “climate-drive extreme weather”, the
report warns. Government safety regulators have been “relatively
complacent” about the risks in the past, it claims. The Ministry of
Defence (MoD) denied it was complacent. The UK Government’s Office for
Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said flood protection at nuclear sites was “very
high” and risks to nuclear safety “very low”. The 38-page report has
been written by Dr Paul Dorfman, a former MoD advisor who chairs the
Nuclear Consulting Group think tank. “UK nuclear military bases are set
to flood,” he concludes. “Present UK coastal military nuclear
infrastructure is profoundly vulnerable to flooding from sea level rise,
storm intensity and storm surge, with inland nuclear facilities also facing
inundation and flooding.”

 The Ferret 20th Sept 2021

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