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NUCLEAR safety experts are calling for households in the UK to be supplied with anti-radiation pills as fears grow of the potential for terrorists to strike highly-sensitive sites around the country.

By Tom Batchelor

 

PUBLISHED: 16:00, Tue, May 31, 2016 | UPDATED: 17:10, Tue, May 31, 2016

A new report warns British nuclear plants are at risk of mass drone strikes, sophisticated cyber attacks and terrorist infiltrators.

Analysis for the Nuclear-Free Local Authorities (NFLA) found nuclear facilities at Faslane – where the UK stations its Trident missile system – was vulnerable to attack.

Sensitive nuclear sites at Hunterston, Torness and Dounreay are also at risk, the study claims.

More worrying still, UK authorities were deemed to be underestimating the risk of devastating terrorist attacks.

The report demands urgent action from ministers as it warns governments and regulatory agencies are struggling to keep up with evolving threats.

Such is the fear of an attack that the NFLA is demanding anti-radiation pills be distributed to households in Glasgow, Edinburgh and surrounding areas.

French Police forces take part in a mock attack drill outside the Grand Stade stadium

The medication is a preventative measure which would help protect people from a radiation leak – either accidental or a deliberate attack.

The report on nuclear security, compiled by Dr David Lowry, a senior research fellow with the US Institute for Resource and Security Studies, argues that nuclear materials transported by road, rail, sea and air are also potential targets.

He said: “The main consequences would be, whatever the level of attack, mass public panic and sensationalist media reportage.

“We would inevitably see total road gridlock, as everyone tries to flee by car en masse at once.”

UK authorities were deemed to be underestimating the risk

Drones could carry shaped charges, poison gas, booby traps or decoys, and could come individually or in large groups.

The report said: “One heavily laden small drone could probably travel at least 20mph with a load of 5-10kg.

“Just one 5kg shaped charge can penetrate 0.75 metres of reinforced concrete, or 0.25 meters of steel.”

The NFLA is demanding anti-radiation pills be distributed to households in Glasgow and Edinburgh

The second report for NFLA, written by Dr Ian Fairlie, an independent radiation scientist, focuses on the stable iodine tablets that can prevent radiation poisoning after some nuclear accidents.

Several other European countries distribute the pills across a wide area, but in Scotland they are only given to residents who live within two or three kilometres of nuclear plants.

Drones could carry shaped charges, poison gas, booby traps or decoys

A Scottish government spokesman said iodine tablets had been distributed to households in designated emergency planning zones around nuclear stations.

There were also stockpiles of iodine tablets in Scotland “which can be distributed to the site of an incident to treat the affected population as required”.

A spokeswoman for the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said: “Duty holders within the UK civil nuclear industry are required by ONR to demonstrate that they have the resilience against a range of external threat scenarios.

“These scenarios are updated regularly considering developments in technology and other areas.

“The distance to which tablets are distributed around a nuclear power station is considered on a case-by-case basis.”

EDF Energy, the French company that runs nuclear power stations in Scotland, and the Ministry of Defence, which runs the Faslane nuclear base, declined to comment.