10. Debate on NDM6813 — Disposal of dredged materials from the Bristol Channel

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:19 pm on 10 October 2018.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 5:19, 10 October 2018

Okay. I understand that there's certainly a public relations problem, in that so many people have been convinced that what is being disposed of in the Cardiff Grounds has some sort of radioactivity beyond what is present outside this building or anywhere else where we reside. 

The fact is that they have tested these samples on three different occasions—2009, 2013, 2017. They have taken multiple samples and they have simply been unable to find any of the materials that could be of cause for concern. Were there to be nuclear materials present, they simply would not be able to dispose of them in the Cardiff sand, because that is not what's in the licence. You know, we simply have to accept that Cefas have done their jobs on three separate occasions, and it is most distressing that some people who are anti-nuclear campaigners, as indeed am I, have whipped up—[Interruption.] We have had whipped up concerns about something that isn't present. And therefore we should be supporting scientifically based results and doing much better at communicating to the public that this should not be a cause of any concern.