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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.

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Greenpeace response to Sellafield safety scandal

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17 February, 2000

Responding to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate report (released tomorrow) into the falsification of plutonium data at BNFL's Sellafield plant, Pete Roche from Greenpeace said, "The whole plutonium business is rotten to the core. Removing one or two bad apples, even from the top, cannot rescue this dangerous and polluting industry".

He added, "It is time for the Government to act decisively and end nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield for good."

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The storage of Liquid High Level Waste at Sellafield:

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Publication date: 
28 February, 2000

The Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (ACSNI) recommended in 1992 that Highly Active Liquid (HAL) waste should be vitrified (incorporated into glass blocks) as soon as reasonably practicable. BNFL told NII in 1995 that it aimed to reduce HAL stocks to a buffer volume by about 2015...

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Key issues in the BNFL MOX fiasco

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28 February, 2000

Eight key issues the NII report on Japanese MOX fuel should have addressed

BNFL only admitted it had falsified safety data on MOX fuel after the Independent newspaper found out. Then it repeatedly denied that any data on the fuel sent to Japan was falsified, until data released in Japan, and a memo from the NII, showed otherwise. The NII report can only be reliable if all the documents and data related to the scandal are released.

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Accidents at Sellafield 1998 and 1999

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17 February, 2000

Accidents and events list compiled by CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) from a range of sources. Bracketed figures refer to Sellafield Newsletter edition in which accident is reported, single figure to level on INES. Complete list from 1950.

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A history of reported accidents at Sellafield

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28 February, 2000

1950 - 1996

The following accidents and incidents resulting in worker contamination or over-exposure in Sellafield's reprocessing plants have been reported since 1950.

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Sellafield: Health and Safety Executive team inspection

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17 February, 2000

The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate's (NII) team inspection of Sellafield came as a result of an apparent increase in the number of safety incidents at the site in the first few months of 1999, as well as issues raised by routine NII inspections 2 . The inspection's findings have led to the NII threatening to force BNFL to close down operations at the controversial nuclear site if safety standards are not improved within two months.

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Greenpeace condemns Japan's plan to return plutonium to UK sender

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12 January, 2000

Greenpeace today condemned as "misguided" plans by a Japanese electricity company to return to Britain a controversial cargo of plutonium reactor fuel, whose delivery sparked international protests last year.

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Greenpeace response to Government's annonucement on nuclear waste management

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26 October, 1999
Greenpeace warned today (25 th October 1999) that the Government's response to the House of Lords' Select Committee Report on Nuclear Waste Management leaves the door open to huge volumes of foreign nuclear waste remaining in the UK.


"Britain is going to be lumbered with huge volumes of radioactive waste if substitution is allowed to go ahead," said Greenpeace nuclear campaigner, Pete Roche.

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Sellafield plutonium arrives in Japan - Greenpeace urges UK Government to reject Sellafield MOX Plant.

Last edited 27 September 1999 at 8:00am
27 September, 1999
Greenpeace - taking action against Nuclear power
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As BNFL's two armed plutonium ships arrived in Japan today, Greenpeace UK called on the Government to reject the company's application to open its new Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP).

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