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Leak forces Sellafield to close

Posted by bex — 13 May 2005 at 8:00am - Comments
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Article tagged as: BNFL, nuclear accidents, nuclear power, reprocessing, sellafield

EC forces BNFL to clean up dangerous waste

Posted by bex — 31 March 2004 at 9:00am - Comments
Sellafield at dusk

Sellafield, on the coast at Cumbria

Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear waste, nuclear weapons, sellafield

Activists block waste train bound for Sellafield

Posted by bex — 23 September 2003 at 8:00am - Comments
Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Article tagged as: hachette, nuclear transports, reprocessing, sellafield, waste

Sellafield's radioactive salmon

Posted by bex — 21 May 2003 at 8:00am - Comments

Radioactive waste from Sellafield has been found in Scottish farmed salmon sold in major British supermarkets. Tests commissioned by Greenpeace revealed traces of radioactive waste in packets of fresh and smoked salmon.

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The tests, conducted independently by Southampton University's oceanography centre, found low levels Technetium-99 (Tc-99) in farmed Scottish salmon sold at Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda, Safeway, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.


Tc-99 is a byproduct of Magnox fuel reprocessing. Dr David Santillo, a scientist at Greenpeace's research laboratories at Exeter University, said: "Tc-99 should not be there at all. It is inexplicable yet significant. Scottish salmon is marketed as something that comes from a pristine environment."

Article tagged as: north sea, nuclear power, oceans, radioactivity, reactor safety, salmon, sellafield

Greenpeace challenge the Sellafield MOX plant

Posted by bex — 9 November 2001 at 9:00am - Comments
Sellafield nuclear plant

Sellafield nuclear plant

After a total of five separate public consultation exercises, beginning in February 1997, the Government has finally approved the start of operations at the Sellafield MOX Plant. The plant will manufacture fuel (made from mixed oxides of plutonium and uranium - hence MOX) for nuclear power stations using material recovered from old, exhausted (or 'spent') fuel rods. The MOX fuel will initially be manufactured for the export market and will be dispatched on armed ships or perhaps even by plane direct from Sellafield in Cumbria.

Article tagged as: mox fuel, nuclear power, nuclear waste, plutonium, sellafield

BNFL incompetent and unsafe - it's official

Posted by bex — 17 February 2000 at 9:00am - Comments
Before the Government decided it needed to set up a Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, three reports into safety operations by BNFL at Sellafield nuclear plant were published today by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate in February 2000.

They cover:
 

Article tagged as: BNFL, NDA, nuclear power, sellafield
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