| With sackings at the Scottish
Environmental Protection Agency this week, the internal troubles at the environmental
watchdog point to problems with monitoring that accident waiting to happen, Dounreay. The
JT can exclusively reveal that "anomalies" in the agency’s checking of
Isotope Central went further than delays in reporting. A SEPA insider told the JT:
"In light of recent events, the SEPA board are now insisting that inspectors actually
visit the site - thank God I’m off on holiday."
Problems with SEPA’s checking of the nuclear
installation derived from the monitoring mode |
employed, as the insider
confirmed :"Instead of going all the way up to Caithness, one of our inspectors would
just ‘phone up now and again, to be told everything was OK. This checking mode was
considered the safest method - the safest for our inspectors that is." In addition,
The SEPA board has discovered that the Dounreay management took it upon themselves to
monitor SEPA staff attitudes to nuclear power. A board member told the JT:
"We’re not sure what form this monitoring took but it certainly could explain
why the phones at SEPA HQ kept making that funny clicking noise." |
