Town thrown into panic after council launches radiation exercise

By Richard Savill 241PM GMT twelve March 2010

Residents barricaded themselves indoors and done raging write calls to the puncture services after "alarmist" leaflets were distributed to 1,200 homes on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

The pamphlets, that were posted by letterboxes after dark, summarized reserve measures to be taken in the eventuality of a chief leak.

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They told people inside of a mile of Portland port, where chief submarines can berth, to close their doors and lard any fires.

Other instructions suggested residents to not leave the area, to take potassium iodate tablets, and follow any instructions given.

To have counts worse, the placement of the leaflets coincided with shrill hailer announcements by H2O association officials that the H2O was being cut off, according to residents.

Rumours afterwards fast widespread that there competence be a deviation trickle from a chief submarine.

Residents have indicted organisers of the "Nuclear Accident Emergency Plan" of "scare-mongering".

The preparations were led by Dorset County Council, the Royal Navy, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and the precinct council.

John Morris, a internal resident, pronounced "I went outward when I listened the loudhailer announcement. I was handed this alarmist prospectus about chief leaks by a bloke who pronounced zero about it being an exercise.

"When I got the prospectus I thought Whens the explosve going to drop?

"It looked critical and it is no consternation people panicked. The organizers dealt with this in an definitely amateurish manner."

Vivien Hawkins, 78, pronounced "It was frightening. I listened this horrible noise, non-stop my front doorway but couldn"t assimilate what they were saying.

"After that a pamphlet came revelation me to close all the windows and lard fires."

Another resident, who did not instruct to be named, pronounced "All I listened was that there might have been a deviation puncture on Portland Port. I had to give my mother a sleeping inscription to assistance with the shock.

"It is silly that the organisers have caused so most mishap over a precision exercise."

Ashley Reed, 42, pronounced "The stroke of these leaflets entrance by the minute boxes is the genuine gist of the stress generated.

"The initial sense when you collect it up is that this is since of a deviation trickle and these were delivered at night and after dark."

Geoff Buckley, 73, a former comparison government official operative with Vickers, pronounced "If people don"t know what"s going on it scares them.

"Instead of utilizing pamphlets, they should outlay a bit of time going around to revisit people."

The preparations were a pre-cursor to a incomparable practice subsequent month. The exercises are a orthodox requisite since of the probability that chief submarines could berth in Portland Harbour.

Donna George, comparison puncture government military officer at Dorset County Council pronounced "I assimilate that the summary went out in the internal paper and internal air wave so they were wakeful of the sold practice we were seeking to undertake."