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https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/31/sellafield-hse-nuclear-radioactive
https://www.yourindustrynews.com/thorp+nuclear+plant+may+close+for+years_32737.html
https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/may/09/environment.nuclearindustry
both the irish and norweigan gvts have serious concerns about the levels of radioactivity in seawater and hence fish stocks.
one of the main issues with the site is the constant renaming of parts of it to break the link in the public mind with previous safety issues. it does make it harder to understand what is going on. calder hall, seascale, magnox reprocessing, thorp reprcessing, windscale and sellafield are some of the names to look out for.
Suer, a lot of what is going on now isn't electric production, but we can't run a safe nuclear industry unless we can clean up after it safely. French designed reactors (iirc, they do use a distinctly different design with a better safety record) are only part of the story. If we cannot handle waste material without f-ing it up, we can't build reactors.
Part of the problem at the selafield site is the scale, it is taking other people's waste as well as our own. I think the more they try to handle, the greater the chance of a f-up. I think perhaps that some other countries have better safety records than we do because they allowed us to deal with the waste. |
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