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October 17, 2005
Terrorists may have planned nuclear target
DETAILED plans of Britain's most sensitive nuclear sites have been found in a car linked to one of the London terror fanatics. The discovery raises the chilling prospect that terrorists were planning a terror attack on a major nuclear target.
Photographs, slides, maps and detailed information about types of radioactive materials and where they are stored on sites such as Sellafield and Dounreay, were found in a raid during the July bombing campaign. They identified sensitive aspects of the sites and gave locations of fuel stores, emergency generators and buildings with unsafe levels of radiation inside. Two slides also showed the precise layout of Sizewell B nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast.
The Metropolitan Police have told one of Britain's top nuclear experts that the sensitive material bearing his name had been found in the car of a woman connected to the July atrocities. The material appeared to come from lectures and talks he had given to students at a university in 2002.
Sellafield bosses are said to be investigating the claims made in the Sunday Mirror.
Sunday Mirror 16th October 2005
Carlisle News and Star 16th October 2005
Carlisle News and Star 17th October 2005
Posted by peter at October 17, 2005 12:02 PM