In a Secret report dated 24th February 1958, the Central Medical Establishment of the RAF at Kelvin House, Cleveland Street London, discusses 76 Squadrons' engine corrosion.
Apologies for the quality of the document.
This document suggests that there was tension between the Ministry of Defence and the AWRE:
"The proposal was suggested by one of the A.W.R.E health physical staff and emphasises, what I have always said, that they have the inability to
grasp the realistic service angle of approach.
It has always amazed me that A.W.R.E can literally smother Australia
with tons of mixed fission products from a variety of tower and ground bust
weapons over years, and can in the same breath adopt a "holier-than-thou" attitude that present Royal Air Force arrangements are unacceptable."
It is well documented that the minor trials caused major contamination of the sacred lands in Australia which are still contaminated to this day. The RAF we obviously not happy about how the lands were contaminated by the scientists, who were criticising the RAF.
The document continues:
The Squadron concerned (76 Squadron) had their B6 aircraft
new in February, 1956, and will, therefore, have had them for over two
years of constant flying at this moment and anticipate them being
finished in 1960. A lot of their work has taken place in the South
Pacific and there is evidence of a fair amount of corrosion - particularly
in the engines - Previous aircraft that have done this work, Canberra
B2s at Eniwetok in 1954 (Operation Castle) were very badly corroded
and the engines were not able to be decontaminated, because of this
corrosion, without sandblasting which, of course, destroys the
tolerances and, therefore, they were buried at seas off the U.K."
Is this correct? Radioactive, contaminated engines from the Canberra aircraft that took part in Operation Castle in Eniwetok were dumped at sea off the UK. Surely, the MoD would not dump radioactive material into the sea near U.K. shores?
We asked them under the Freedom of Information Act (including a copy of the above document):
This was the response:
The Ministry of Defence holds no records relating to the dumping of radioactive, contaminated engines off the coast of the U.K. So where are they? How far out to sea are they? How much have they corroded since 1954? How much contamination has been caused by this dumping of material?
Nobody seems to know the answer. Nobody seems interested or cares. We do and will continue to find out where the engines are and their potential hazards. The MoD suggests that we look in the archives to find out, but we can't because the AB and ES files are now under a "security review" by the MoD and the files are restricted!
Nothing to see here, and if you wanted to see it, you can't!
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