Lydd Airport expansion – ‘nuclear safety remains an issue’
05.11.08
Lydd Airport Action Group’s (LAAG) nuclear safety advisor John Large of Consulting Engineers, Large and Associates has reviewed Lydd Airport’s second round of supplementary environmental information submitted to Shepway District Council on August 29 in support of its planning application.
He has concluded that there is no necessity to change the conclusions he set out in his report dated March 17, 2007 which formed part of LAAG’s initial response to Lydd Airport’s planning application submitted to Shepway District Council on April 26, 2007.
In this report Mr Large predicted that for the proposed expansion to 500,000 passengers per annum (ppa) the overall risk of a commercial airliner accidentally crashing onto the Dungeness nuclear power plant had odds of 1 in 689,229 in each year. Should Lydd Airport expand to 2,000,000 ppa then the risk of an aircraft crash increases to odds of 1 in 409,691 in each year.
Both of these risk levels are substantially higher than the 1 in 10 million level of acceptable odds or risk of an accidental aircraft crash imposed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) in order to maintain the nuclear safety case. Therefore, the risk of accidental aircraft crash damage would be an unacceptable aspect of the overall nuclear safety case.
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