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BNFL - Chronology of the MOX fiasco

Last edited 17 February 2000 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
31 January, 2000

The events of BNFL's falsified safety data for nuclear fuel. (Compiled by Green Action, Japan.)

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Accidents at Sellafield 1998 and 1999

Last edited 17 February 2000 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
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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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:
 

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Aldermaston fire fighting appliances unfit for service

Last edited 15 February 2000 at 9:00am

Three incidents out of 100 revealed by CND that occurred in 1999 at Britain's atomic weapons factory at Aldermaston. On April 1, the Government will hand over management from Hunting BRAE to a different team. The bad news is that the new team comprises BNFL ('fundamentally flawed' managers of Sellafield) partnered by Lockheed Martin - a US company with a similarly poor record.

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

Last edited 12 January 2000 at 9:00am
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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BNFL faces collapse as Japanese refuse to accept plutonium fuel after data scandal

Last edited 16 December 1999 at 9:00am
16 December, 1999

16 Devember 1999 - Japan's Industry Ministry (MITI) today said that no more plutonium-MOX fuel will be accepted from British Nuclear Fuels following revelations that quality assurance data cannot be guaranteed. This represents a fatal blow to BNFL's plans to open the unauthorised £300 million Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP).

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Greenpeace response to Government's annonucement on nuclear waste management

Last edited 26 October 1999 at 8:00am
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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BNFL 'ignoring safety for profits' claim

Last edited 13 October 1999 at 8:00am
13 October, 1999
Fukui City, 13 October - British Nuclear Fuels the producers of MOX fuel for Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) are ignoring basic safety and quality standards of industrial production in an apparent attempt to reduce production costs, Greenpeace and Green Action claimed today.


The accusation comes after the two organisations commissioned an assessment by Dr. Frank Barnaby following the revelation that quality control data was falsified. Three workers accused of being responsible for the falsification were fired from BNFL last week.

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New evidence shows that plutonium fuel shipment could contain falsified data

Last edited 29 September 1999 at 8:00am
29 September, 1999

Fukui politicians speak out against British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL)

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Deadly plutonium fuel to travel via Northern Japan despite lack of prior consultation

Last edited 28 September 1999 at 8:00am
28 September, 1999

Tokyo, September 28th 1999 - A cargo of deadly weapons-usable plutonium MOX fuel is expected to travel today through the pristine environment of northern Japan, through the Tsugaru Straits and past the island of Hokkaido, warned Greenpeace. The two British-flagged armed freighters, the Pacific Pintail, carrying some 225kg of weapons-usable plutonium in half a ton of MOX fuel, and the now empty Pacific Teal, began the three-day journey from Fukushima on Monday afternoon, bound for the Takahama nuclear facility in Fukui prefecture.

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