‘Nuclear Station Sabotaged’
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LONDON, April 9. The “Sunday Telegraph” said today that Scotland Yard had launched a nation-wide inquiry into sabotage at Britain’s experimental nuclear power station near Bournemouth on the south coast. The newspaper said that
commercial interests of a foreign power were suspected as being behind the damage at the plant at Winfrith. When the damage was first announced early last month, officials said sabotage could not be excluded. Last night, both Scotland Yard and the Atomic Energy
i Authority said that they could 1 not add to that statement • Scotland Yard said last night it had three men assigned to t the case. , Suspicion was aroused a 1 few weeks ago by the discovery of slight corrosion on 1 piping inside the reactor. t Tests showed that the cor-
1 rosion was caused by mercury —which is not used in the t reactor. > The “Sunday Telegraph" said any delay in work at the i plant would benefit foreign - commercial competitors, bei cause the reactor is being developed for the export mar-1 i. ket
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 13
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