ARTICLES RELATING TO ALLEGED RADIATION POISONING OF RAY FOX BY SHELL

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ARTICLES RELATING TO ALLEGED RADIATION POISONING OF RAY FOX BY SHELL

ContractJournal.com article 29 July 1998  Extract: On 19 June 1998 a meeting involving Wokingham District Council, the Environment Agency, the Health and Safety Executive, Berkshire Health Authority, Thames Water and the Medical Toxology Unit from Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Hospital Trust concluded that there was no evidence to support the claim that contamination had caused ill health for one particular individual, Mr Fox.

The Sunday Times: Suburb ‘poisoned’ by plutonium: 8 July 2001  Extract: Some of the highest levels of plutonium and uranium contamination recorded in Britain have been found in a home in a suburb in southeast England. Soil and dust collected from the Reading suburb of Earley gave readings of at least 100 times the normal background level of radiation.Shell UK said last week “no nuclear material was ever stored or processed” at Earley.Dr Michael Clark, of the NRPB, said: “These are levels sometimes found near nuclear installations, so it is very surprising to find them in a house in Reading.” He said the NRPB would investigate.

Radioactive Times: Vol.5 No1. “A Reactor at the Bottom of the Garden”:  Extract: In the course of investigating this strange story, we have now found that there was indeed an experimental nuclear reactor beneath the ground at the Earley depot. It was visited by Dr David Greenwood who worked at University College London and who recently came to Wales to talk with Chris Busby and others interested in the case. Dr Greenwood has sent an affidavit to the European Commission describing the underground laboratory. The reactor was a graphite moderated reactor of about 30 feet diameter buried several metres deep. It was used for nuclear research in connection with the Manhattan Project and later nuclear developments. Greenwood named several eminent scientists who knew of the existence of the reactor, including Prof David Bohm, the Nobel laureate. He explained that the radioactive contamination which was being produced by the research there was affecting the special oils he went there to obtain for his high vacuum mass spectrometry research.

INDYMEDIA UK: TESTS IN POISONED BERKSHIRE SUBURB: 2 January 2002 Extracts: The owner of the 4 bedroom property, Ray Fox, is aware that his debilitating and life threatening illnesses are due to the fact that the house is radioactive. Earlier investigations have already found extremely high levels of uranium and plutonium. Because of the chemicals and radioactive materials that have leached onto Ray Fox’s land and into the house over a period of time via the adjoining rainwater drainage systems, his health has deteriorated and he is now registered disabled. The property backs onto a small housing estate built in 1997 on an old Shell petrochemical depot that was operational from the 1930s for several decades 000000

The Independent: Radioactive house is put up for sale: 14 January 2003  A property described as “the most radioactive house in Britain” is up for sale, despite unnaturally high levels of plutonium in its garden.

Green Party Website: Government told to come clean on secret nuclear facility: 21 March 2003  Extract: At its twice-yearly conference, held in Llandrindod Wells from 13 – 16 March, the party unanimously passed a resolution insisting on a complete clean up of the nuclear facility at the former Shell site in Earley, south east of Reading, and immediate action to ensure that victims receive medical attention.

Corporate Watch Newsletter 14 : SHELL SHOCKER: July/August 2003  Extracts: Shell was unable to say how many reactors it once operated, where any of them were located, or when and how they were disposed of. “It was a long time ago” said a Shell spokeswoman.

Raymond Fox, the owner of the house, became dangerously ill in the mid 1990’s, investigating suspected pollution in his garden. He found a drain leading off the oil depot and into his garden where it intersected with a rain water drain. When he entered the drain he came into contact with oily sludge that caused him to become critically ill. He suffered agonising pains, convulsions and blackouts, his feet would bleed, and his hair fell out in clumps. Now, after years of investigation, his house is at the centre of what must be one of the worst nuclear scandals in British history.

Stephen Kaiser of the European Commission is now investigating the case. He has met with British government representatives who are not denying the contamination of Fox’s land, instead they claim that the radioactivity in Ray’s garden is simply the result of fallout from weapons testing, concentrated by heavy rainfall.

Corporate Watch has learned that a barrister, the late Derek Willmott, had also been investigating the Earley case, on behalf of clients who claimed to have been made ill as a result of pollution originating in the old Shell site. Willmott’s report alleges that the old Shell depot, on which Amber Close is now built, concealed a subterranean facility which housed a nuclear test reactor. His report is based in part on testimony from Dr David Geenwood, a scientist from the medical physics department of University College Hospital, London, who used to visit the site regularly during the 1960s and 70s, to purchase ‘special oils’ for use in mass spectrometers. It was during this time that Greenwood and two other scientists were invited to conduct an inspection of the complex. Greenwood has testified that a graphite test reactor was installed in a large lead-lined chamber along with a neutron generator and large quantities of plutonium, uranium, cobalt 60, and other radioactive substances.

Shell categorically denies that there was a reactor or any other nuclear materials at the Earley site. “Shell is an oil company,” said spokesman Justin Everard. This is disingenuous. It is not common knowledge, but Shell did once have nuclear power interests: General Atomic (in the USA) and General Atomic International (elsewhere): joint ventures with Gulf Oil that operated between 1973 and 1982.

In April 98, Josef Kees, the German doctor who treated Ray Fox, wrote to Dr Abid outlining his analysis of Fox’s condition and urging him to ensure that Fox received treatment. Dr Kees diagnosed “definite toxic allergic reaction resulting from a mixture of toxic substances… a severe toxic poisoning… [including, inter alia] lindane, uranium, DDT and DDE,” and commented, “this demands actions to prove the contamination and then decontaminate the land around his house and the surrounding area.” He made recommendations for treatment and further testing. Despite Fox’s requests to the medical authorities, none of these tests or treatments have yet been conducted.

BANKRUPTCY In addition to being stonewalled by the local council, and medical authorities, Raymond Fox has also fallen victim to a highly dubious bankruptcy proceeding. His company, Fox Building, went into receivership in January 1997, when his illness had rendered him unable to work. Then in 2001 Ray was made personally bankrupt over an alleged personal guarantee for one of Fox Building’s debts. Ray maintains that the guarantee produced at his bankruptcy hearing was a forgery. He even offered to pay the debt in 1999 in order to be rid of the unwanted hassle. His offer was turned down, essentially forcing him into bankruptcy.

Daily Telegraph: Exclusion zone: 29 November 2003: Raymond Fox claims that radioactivity at his former home has blighted his health – so he refuses to return. His neighbours and the local council insist that the area is perfectly safe.

David Rowan investigates a suburban mystery… Extract : At first, he thought the radioactivity might be connected with the nearby atomic weapons plant at Aldermaston; or perhaps the result of a hushed-up air crash involving a damaged nuclear weapon. But since he discovered toxic black sludge in drains leading from the former Shell depot next door, Mr Fox has drawn a conclusion which, if true, has far more worrying implications for his neighbours. Somewhere beneath the bottom of his garden, he is convinced, there was once – perhaps still is – a secret nuclear bunker.

Daily Telegraph: Mysterious radiation in Reading

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