Post Ax9kd9Bz2W7Efu8r8S by snarkweek@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ax9jEv8bXgugBJRfeq by alanferrier@mastodon.scot
       2025-08-14T08:20:48Z
       
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       Another Category A event - the most serious and the second in the space of two years - which carries an "actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment," at Faslane.I'm sure @BBCScotlandNews and @jackiebmsp will be all over this.https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25388110.serious-nuclear-incident-took-place-faslane-naval-base/
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax9k9mFZG7yb7goVP6 by snarkweek@mstdn.social
       2025-08-14T09:26:19Z
       
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       @alanferrier The article says:'The news comes after the Ministry of Defence admitted that Loch Long, where RNAD Coulport is located, is contaminated with radioactive waste.'The article also says that a CatA NSER is:'one which carries an "actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment"'I'm having trouble with the trivialization in their language. Clearly we are beyond 'actual potential release' when the nuclear waste was already released in the Loch.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax9kSxQfv4LPIS9fI8 by snarkweek@mstdn.social
       2025-08-14T09:29:47Z
       
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       @alanferrier Note also that while this phrasing they chose is ambivalent:"actual or high potential for radioactive release to the environment"This more usual phrasing, that they avoided, would have been unambivalent:"high potential for, or actual radioactive release to the environment"
       
 (DIR) Post #Ax9kd9Bz2W7Efu8r8S by snarkweek@mstdn.social
       2025-08-14T09:31:38Z
       
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       @alanferrier When your NSER procedures themselves contain muddy language, you know that they will be used to hide incidents from the population.