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Wed 12 Dec 2008Carnsore nuclear plan
A SENIOR civil servant likened the risk of death from a major accident at a nuclear station to the risk of death from an insect sting or an animal bite, State papers released by the National Archives show.
Plans were progressing for a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point in 1978 when the official from the Department of the Taoiseach wrote that the risk of an accident was “extremely low”. If such an accident happened, the most probable outcome would be 100-350 deaths, he said.
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