Windscale scandal
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The transfer of ownership would take place not later than the last day of February. Trafalgar House planned to cut 2,000 jobs straight away, and another 750 by late summer.
How much, if anything at all, was being paid for Scott Lithgow [current book value: $18 millions] remained unclear: initial reports said nothing, whilst the British Shipbuilders chairperson claimed that 'it was not a free transfer, money coll be assinut mention due in due figure.
Trafalgar House would also benefit from the government writing off Scott Lithgow's debts [£168 million], making the redundancy payments (£15 million] and providing further capital investments for the yard.
This agreement with Trafal¡ERIOUS leaks of nuclear waste occurred at the Windscale (Sellafield) nuclear plant last year and the full facts have come to light this week.
The leaks occured on the 11th, 13th and 16th November last year and contaminated 25 miles of beaches with radioactive pollution.
The government is treating its inquiry into the leaks with obsessive secrecy. In a similar vein, the Serious Crime Squad has been investigating Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth because they held a press conference last September which revealed plans by the government to dump nuclear waste at sea.