Twenty years after Chernobyl, the Manx Government remains committed to a contingency plan for a nuclear incident.
Local Government Minister, John Rimington (pictured) says it WOULD be used in a situation where there was a low level of radioactive contamination and would have NO direct impact on a human’s health.
He added that, in such an eventuality, it would still be important to safeguard Manx agriculture and the local food chain.
The radioactive plume from Chernobyl reached the Isle of Man in May 1986.
Heavy rain resulted in considerable deposition of radioactive particles which resulted in the persistent contamination of hill land.
Legal restrictions on sheep farming were subsequently introduced.
The Island’s been completely free of that Chernobyl contamination since the autumn of 2000 when Tynwald revoked the legal restrictions.
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