Belgium Prepares for Nuclear Disaster (Revelation 15)

Belgium hands out millions of iodine pills in case of nuclear accident | World news

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Belgium has started to make iodine pills available free to its 11 million citizens in case of an accident at its ageing nuclear plants, while saying there is no “specific risk.”
The government has also launched a website in the country’s official languages of French, Dutch and German to tell people what to do in an emergency as it begins implementing plans announced two years ago.
The Belgian interior minister Jan Jambon said his government aimed to “properly inform” the public and the plans were preventative.

“For now there is no specific risk with our nuclear plants,” Jambon told Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
Pharmacies interviewed by Belgian media said they had begun receiving some of the 4.5 million boxes of 10 iodine pills – which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid gland – that were ordered by the government.
Belgium’s creaking nuclear plants have been stirring concerns at home and across its borders after a series of problems ranging from leaks to cracks and an unsolved sabotage incident.
In the last few years the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany have all raised concerns about the nuclear plants across the border in Belgium.
Two years ago the Dutch government ordered millions of iodine pills for its own citizens living near the border.
Belgium has seven nuclear reactors: four in Doel, near the major northern Dutch-speaking port of Antwerp, and three in Liege in the southern French-speaking region of the country.
Benoit Ramacker, spokesman for the national crisis centre, said Belgium launched in 1991 an initial series of emergency measures in case of a nuclear accident but only updated them once, in 2003.
With the latest plans, “citizens must also prepare to help themselves the day something happens”, Ramacker told RTBF.
Belgians for example can open an account on the website to get text message alerts on their mobile phones in the event of an emergency.

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Fears of nuclear terror attack grow amid call for UK homes to be sent anti-radiation pills

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.

Britain Prepares For Next ISIS Terror Attack (Daniel 8:4)

Fears of nuclear terror attack grow amid call for UK homes to be sent anti-radiation pills

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.

Belgium Prepares For Nuclear Terrorism (Daniel 8:4)

All Belgian residents issued with iodine tablets to protect against radiation

Iodine pills help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid gland Credit: Rex 

• Matthew Holehouse, Brussels

28 April 2016 • 7:19pm
 

The entire population of Belgium is to be issued with a ration of iodine tablets, months after warnings about the threat of Isil building a dirty bomb.

Iodine pills, which help reduce radiation build-up in the thyroid gland, had previously only been issued to people living within 20km (14 miles) of the Tihange and Doel nuclear plants.
Maggie De Block, the Health Minister, said that would be extended to 100km, covering the whole country of 11 million people, following advice from an expert council.

The pills will be sent to pharmacies, and the public would be ordered to collect their ration in the event of a meltdown. Children, pregnant women and those breast-feeding would be given priority.
It emerged following last month’s terrorist attacks that an Isil cell may have been plotting to kidnap a nuclear expert in order to build a “dirty bomb”. Eleven nuclear workers had their passes revoked.

Ibrahim and Khalid el-Bakraoui, the brothers behind the suicide strikes on Brussels airport and Metro, are believed to have been involve the plot to scatter radioactive material over a populated area.
A senior Belgian nuclear industry official was secretly filmed by jihadists late last year, according to the country’s nuclear authority, and the brothers were linked to the surveillance.

There are also concerns over Belgium’s ageing nuclear plants that have been subject to repeated safety warnings, including defects in pressure vessels and fires.

Last week Germany asked that the 40-year-old Tihange 2 and Doel 3 reactors be turned off “until the resolution of outstanding security issues”.
The reactor pressure vessels at both sites have shown signs of metal degradation, raising fears about their safety. They were temporarily closed but resumed service last December.

Belgium’s official nuclear safety agency (AFCN) rejected the German request, saying the two plants “respond to the strictest possible safety requirements.”

The key figure in the suspected dirty bomb plot is Mohammed Bakkali, 28, from Brussels, who was arrested in November on suspicion of helping to plan the Paris massacre. Police raided his wife’s flat and found a ten-hour video taken by a camera hidden opposite the home of an executive at the Centre for the Study of Nuclear Energy in Mol, northern Belgium. The executive had access to radioactive isotopes at the country’s national nuclear research centre.