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18 Apr 2000
British Nuclear Fuels two year safety action plan, announced today, will do nothing towards saving thousands of industrial jobs and giving the company a sustainable commercial future, warns Friends of the Earth.
Reacting to the company's response to damning criticism in February by the Health and Safety Executive, FOE said today's proposals amounted to little more than “rearranging deck-chairs on the Titanic” and that the company would “go to the wall” if it did not reassess the type of activity in its forward business plan.
Mark Johnston, Nuclear Campaigner at Friends of the Earth said:
“BNFL cannot move forward safely if it is going in the wrong direction.
Its traditional markets are in decline irrespective of the current round
of scandals.New proceedures and moving staff around is no more than rearranging
deckchairs on the Titanic. It will not head off big jobs losses in future
years,leading to more embarrassment for DTI and the Government.
“BNFL will go to wall if it does not look ahead. Only by switching
to clean up contracts and managing the nuclear legacy, both in the UK
and around the world, will the company have a profitable future to speak
of.
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