nuclear waste

Yucca Mountain

Last edited 12 November 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: November 2002

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Half life: Living with effects of nuclear waste

Last edited 29 October 2002 at 9:00am
29 October, 2002
Mayak: Kunashak region

Mayak: Kunashak region

Article tagged as: health impacts, mayak, nuclear accidents, nuclear waste, press releases, radiation

Liabilities Management Authority

Last edited 4 July 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: July 2002

Summary
Today (4th July) the Government will announce plans for how our worsening radioactive waste crisis that has accumulated over 50 years is to be managed.

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Government creative accountacy to subsidise radioactive waste industry?

Posted by bex — 4 July 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
On 4th July 2002 the Government published its White Paper Managing the Nuclear Legacy which contained plans for dealing with our worsening radioactive waste crisis that has accumulated over 50 years.

Article tagged as: energy review, government, NDA, nuclear power, nuclear waste, policy

BNFL and the nuclear wastes trade

Last edited 22 November 2001 at 9:00am

BNFL and it's subsidiary Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd, owns 7 ships which transport nuclear waste fuel and other nuclear materials, including plutonium, around the globe.
The ships carry nuclear waste fuel from BNFL's overseas customers in Japan, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands to its notorious Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. The ships also carry nuclear waste fuel from the same overseas customers to the French version of Sellafield, La Hague.

Article tagged as: BNFL, nuclear power, nuclear transports, nuclear waste, plutonium, press releases, sellafield

Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility

Last edited 6 February 2014 at 2:47pm
Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant

Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant

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Nuclear reprocessing

Last edited 10 November 2001 at 9:00am
Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant

Every nuclear power station creates plutonium while in operation. The plutonium is contained in the spent fuel elements. A number of countries have shipped their spent fuel to La Hague, (France) or Sellafield (UK) for reprocessing, although Sellafield no longer has any major overseas contracts.

Article tagged as: nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, reactor safety, reprocessing, THORP

Nuclear power background

Last edited 10 November 2001 at 9:00am
Nuclear reactors and reprocessing plants were first designed and created to produce plutonium - for nuclear weapons. Electricity was simply a by-product.
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Nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield: What is nuclear reprocessing?

Last edited 9 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
9 November, 2001

Nuclear reprocessing involves chopping up the 'spent'nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor, then dissolving it in nitric acid. The process was designed to separate out plutonium from the other radioactive products in waste fuel - for the production of nuclear weapons and for use in (now abandoned) fast-breeder reactors. 

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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