Mr. Robert AinsworthTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, pursuant to his answer of 24 January,Official Report, columns 109–10, what possible causes of Greenpeace's high readings were investigated apart from the misuse of equipment.
§ Mr AtkinsThe radiological measurements made by Greenpeace personnel at the Drigg low level radioactive waste disposal site were just one component of the complaints made by Greenpeace following its illegal entry. Each component was investigated thoroughly by Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution.
The Greenpeace complaint provided no reliable evidence of unauthorised disposals of low level radioactive waste, least of all from its radiological monitoring of waste in the disposal trench.
HMIP considered the breadth of the findings from its investigations and found no evidence to support the Greenpeace contention that radioactive waste of levels in excess of those permitted had been disposed of at Drigg.