BBC Nuclear
Coming soon - the full story of how the British Broadcasting Corporation promotes nuclear power by denying the health effects of Chernobyl.

In April 1986 Chernobyl's reactor number 4 exploded and burned for ten days. This - the worst-ever nuclear accident - spread radioactivity all over the world. If it had no widespread effect on health, then public concern about new nuclear power stations might seem to be a bit hysterical.

The BBC agenda - Don't worry your little heads about nuclear power - we have decided Chernobyl didn't cause any observable increase in disease, except for a few highly irradiated emergency workers and some mostly curable thyroid cancers.

This message was put out on Horizon - the BBC's most prominent TV science series - in 2006, in the week that the Blair Government announced its intention to go for new build. Later it was repeated on Today - Radio 4's premier news and current affairs programme which broadcasts 17 hours every week.

After a long and continuing dispute between the BBC and the Low Level Radiation Campaign, this site shows how:

• the BBC has persistently ignored compelling scientific evidence of the truth of Chernobyl;
• the BBC Trust has condoned dishonesty and incompetence in reporters and yet more incompetence within its own Editorial Standards Committee;
• the Chernobyl-denying message has been embedded in a Trust Ruling based on untruths, misrepresentation and misdirection from secret expert advisers;
• the Trust's Ruling on Chernobyl allows BBC staff to imagine that the opinions of pro-nuclear United Nations agencies like the International Atomic Energy Agency stand as a scientific consensus;
• the Ruling encourages programme producers to break the BBC's own rules on balance;
• the Trust has refused to consider a complaint against its own misconduct, hiding behind yet more misrepresentation.

The BBC is responsible for handling complaints against itself, and they claim there's no appeal. We don't agree. The public funds the BBC and the public can force them to be accountable. You can help, and this site shows you how. Please read on

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