You accuse me of wilful ignorance?
https://assets.publishing.service.g...775/euratom-quarterly-update-jan-mar-2019.pdf
Try reading page 3, but I’ll quote a couple of key sections for you:
‘This means that the Government has put in place all the legislation needed ahead of the UK leaving Euratom, ensuring that it can now operate as an independent and responsible nuclear state and that civil nuclear trade can continue.’
And page 6:
‘This includes putting in place all legislative measures required in order to allow the nuclear industry to continue to operate with certainty and has concluded all international agreements required for civil nuclear trade to continue in any scenario.’
Who is misleading who here?
Excellent and now tell me the legal vacuum.
One way in which Euratom has a role in medical radioisotopes is via the European Observatory of the Supply of Medical Radioisotopes, a body that was set up by the EU in response to previous 99Mo/99mTc shortages. This organisation is led by the Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) for the purposes of maintaining security of supply among Euratom members.
The European Association of Nuclear Medicine is also a member of the European Observatory alongside the ESA. Their President-elect, Professor Win Oyen, has warned that although no disruption is sought, “the danger is that, if there is no agreement, people retreat to formal legal positions because there is a vacuum in regulation.”
“The transport of isotopes across borders is regulated, so it is not something you can send in a package with DHL or FedEx and expect to be delivered the next day,” Professor Oyen said in reference to the inevitable formation of a UK-EU border.
Notably, after March the UK will no longer have the ability to propose or shape changes to the sector among Euratom members. In this sense, some control over our security of supply will have been ceded.
If restrictions from EU sources arose, it remains possible that we could increase imports from elsewhere in the world. However, this would prove more expensive. As Dr Dickson pointed out to the Health Committee, “You can import from South Africa, but you lose more activity and therefore reduce the number of patients you can treat.”
In addition, the BMA has raised concerns regarding the quality of product, should we need to increase imports from alternative international sources.
If the contingency plans were effective and in place all Mogg or the Government had to do for a simple bit of good PR (boy do they need it#) is shut the Dr up by showing their plans. Also read thge joint letter submitted by the The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), the British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) and the UK Radiopharmacy Group (UKRG). I suppose they have a better idea on what is going on.
