Leaders not ready for 'Chernobyl' (bbc/uk)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4917074.stm

BBC Wales' Welsh-language current affairs programme Taro Naw has obtained documents which show Welsh Office civil servants told hundreds of farmers high levels of radiation found in sheep would be a short-term problem.

Trefor Roberts, who farms near Dolgellau, said: "In the first meeting we had as farmers Welsh Office officials told us that what they called 'this thing' would be with us for three weeks.

Animals on hill farms still have to be tested for radiation

"At the worst scenario, he said three months. Here we are 20 years on and we still have the restrictions."

Radiation from the explosion reached uplands in north Wales in less than a week.

Expert Kevin Doughty warned at the time that land could be contaminated for at least 100 years.