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DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
Always found it rather ‘strange’ that radioactive fall out could travel all the way over from Chernobyl and then somehow neatly dissect a tiny region like North Wales into ‘east is good and west is bad’.

This being especially so when, by pure chance, we just happened to have a couple of nuclear power stations on our doorstep at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa.

But ours is not to reason why, but to be as mushrooms, kept in the dark and accept what we are told.
 

Nithsdale

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Livestock Farmer
Always found it rather ‘strange’ that radioactive fall out could travel all the way over from Chernobyl and then somehow neatly dissect a tiny region like North Wales into ‘east is good and west is bad’.

This being especially so when, by pure chance, we just happened to have a couple of nuclear power stations on our doorstep at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa.

But ours is not to reason why, but to be as mushrooms, kept in the dark and accept what we are told.

Chernobyl affected more than just a bit of Wales, though. It was here, too - dad tells of lambs at market with big red crosses on their backs so no mistaking they were 'radioactive'. And wasn't there an entire valley in Yorkshire (or was it Lancashire) which was deemed polluted?

Ofcourse, it too may all have been from closer to home. I'm just saying it wasn't just Wales affected
 

DeeGee

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Location
North East Wales
Chernobyl affected more than just a bit of Wales, though. It was here, too - dad tells of lambs at market with big red crosses on their backs so no mistaking they were 'radioactive'. And wasn't there an entire valley in Yorkshire (or was it Lancashire) which was deemed polluted?

Ofcourse, it too may all have been from closer to home. I'm just saying it wasn't just Wales affected
My apologies to others who were affected by this, which I hadn’t fully realised.
But strange that just certain areas of the UK were affected by something that had happened so far away from us?
 

BrianV

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
Always found it rather ‘strange’ that radioactive fall out could travel all the way over from Chernobyl and then somehow neatly dissect a tiny region like North Wales into ‘east is good and west is bad’.

This being especially so when, by pure chance, we just happened to have a couple of nuclear power stations on our doorstep at Trawsfynydd and Wylfa.

But ours is not to reason why, but to be as mushrooms, kept in the dark and accept what we are told.
We had radiation here on Dartmoor & also in Wales as rain fell on both places as the radio active cloud passed over, for the next 20 years our lambs had to be marked specially when sold so they could be checked for radiation content
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
But strange that just certain areas of the UK were affected by something that had happened so far away from us?


Not strange in the slightest, the radiation came down in the rain, and this thread lists the highest rainfall areas in the country that were in line with the predominant east wind from Chernobyl on the 26th, 27th and 28th of April 1986.

The first indication of the accident in the west was when Swedish nuclear workers triggered radiation alarms as they arrived for work with contamination on their clothes. Any suggestion that the contamination deposited here came from the UK is pure fantasy.
 

puppet

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
sw scotland
My apologies to others who were affected by this, which I hadn’t fully realised.
But strange that just certain areas of the UK were affected by something that had happened so far away from us?
It came across high up in the atmosphere then perfect timing that it lashed with rain in some areas, washing it into the ground. Most of south west Scotland was restricted, some hill farms for around 10 years
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
Was or is there any reports carried out to present day with any alleged increase of cancer or illnesses linked to it all?
Top Secret ,50 yr rules possibly??
Not that we ever knew about, I guess because sheep were constantly eating grass possibly irradiated they were more likely to become dosed up, strangely there were no restrictions at all on cattle.
I guess the amount of potential radiation in a reservoir surface area would be low compared to the total volume of water with fresh replenishment constantly going on.
 

Wood field

Member
Livestock Farmer
Growing up in the south lakes we had restrictions on sheep from the fells, interesting aside at 21 yrs of age I was diagnosed with hyper active thyroid which was consequently removed, one Dr did say there had been a spike in thyroid problems, coincidence? Who knows
Mind you at 17 as a 2nd year apprentice we were working in vickers barrow, and next to us separated by Battens and poly sheeting were used nuclear transport flasks in for reconditioning
To think we had sellafield up the coast heysham across the bay and Vickers down the road … we must have glowed like the kids in the readybrek advert
 

Nithsdale

Member
Livestock Farmer
Growing up in the south lakes we had restrictions on sheep from the fells, interesting aside at 21 yrs of age I was diagnosed with hyper active thyroid which was consequently removed, one Dr did say there had been a spike in thyroid problems, coincidence? Who knows
Mind you at 17 as a 2nd year apprentice we were working in vickers barrow, and next to us separated by Battens and poly sheeting were used nuclear transport flasks in for reconditioning
To think we had sellafield up the coast heysham across the bay and Vickers down the road … we must have glowed like the kids in the readybrek advert


Not sure your age but the info you've given and remembering Seascale was one of the the worst nuclear disasters in the world (at the time, at least)... it wouldn't surprise me.

IIRC hyper thyroid is common link to radiation
 

Y Fan Wen

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Location
N W Snowdonia
The workers arriving in Trawsfynydd were setting off the alarms that day and hand held detectors sweeping their vehicles showed high readings.
Some of my land was under restriction for years. Had to get everything scanned before moving off at a comp payment of 1.20/head. Sheep would circulate the hot elements round as long as they were grazing peat but as soon as you moved them onto a mineral soil the elements would be excreted and then locked up in the clay. Never had any failures in the scanning after year one.
 

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