#WindScale

"Divers in Sellafield nuclear pool for first time in 65 years"

"The nuclear power plant in Cumbria went out of use in the 1960s, and the pool was built in the 1940s for use by Windscale Piles, the site's first nuclear reactors, for the cooling, storage and de-canning of spent fuel as part of the UK's post-war atomic weapons programme. According to records, it was last entered back in 1958 to repair a broken winch, and now divers are back in the water with the rather unpleasant task of clearing sludge."

@histodons #nuclear #NuclearWaste #Sellafield #Windscale #ColdWar #divers

https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-in-sellafield-nuclear-pool-for-first-time-in-65-years/

Appalled by comments to this excellent article by George Monbiot, still defending #NuclearEnergy as a solution. As if nobody had learned anything from the calamitous decisions of the past that are still ruining our present:

1. the uncontrollable 'accidents' -- #LongIsland, #Windscale, #Chernobyl, #Fukushima

2. the everlasting #radiation

3. the immense cost of #decommissioning and 'cleanup'

4. and the INSOLUBLE problem of #NuclearWaste.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/09/us-world-climate-collapse-nations

#NuclearPower inescapably generates large quantities of #hazardous human-made waste, the worst of which will remain hazardous probably beyond Homo sapiens’ time on the planet.

Nuclear radiation less dangerous than emissions from a wood-burning stove?? Wood-burning stoves are pollutants, no question, but they could NEVER lead to a #Windscale, #ThreeMileIsland, #Chernobyl or #Fukushima. Nor will decommissioning them cost #billions and take #decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/enve-honesty-on-nuong-legacy-of-hazardous-waste

@Openhuman The estimated toll of #cancer cases has been revised upwards continuously, from 33 to 200 to 240. #Sellafield took its present name only in 1981, in part to erase the old name, #Windscale, and the associated memories of the fire.

#Kernkraft ⚛️ ist billig, sicher und umweltfreundlich.🤡 Das sieht man auch in #Windscale bzw. Sellafield

"In #Sellafield wird nichts mehr produziert. Aber das, was zurückbleibt, in einen sicheren Zustand zu bringen, ist eine schier unvorstellbar teure und komplexe Aufgabe, bei der man nicht in menschlichen, sondern in planetarischen Zeitskalen denken muss"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site?utm_term=639d932937d054c30a1e465710fd3117&utm_campaign=TheLongRead&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email

Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site (long read, 30 mins)

Excellent piece from The Guardian on making safe what is left behind when a nuclear site is shut down (one I live 45 miles from) – an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

#science #nuclear #energy #environment #industry #sellafield #windscale #radiation #radioactive #waste #government #planning

Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site (long read, 30 mins)

Excellent piece from The Guardian on making safe what is left behind when a nuclear site is shut down (one I live 45 miles from) – an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

#science #nuclear #energy #environment #industry #sellafield #windscale #radiation #radioactive #waste #government #planning

Spent nuclear fuel is the most substantive product of human civilization. It will be in our descendants' world long after our cities, languages and gods are forgotten.

"Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site"

"Nothing is produced at #Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one"

@nuclearhumanities @sts #Windscale #nuclear #coldwar #EnvHist #nuclear #UK #Cumbria

Guardian Long Read: https://shrtm.nu/MOAp

The radioactive fallout from the 1957 fire at the Windscale site, since renamed Sellafied, was far worse than originally claimed. The site operated two nuclear reactors to manufacture plutonium for UK nuclear weapons.

The Irish Centre for High-end Computing calculated the fallout distribution using wind and rain data from the time, and found that the fire, which burned inside a nuclear reactor for 3 days, spread radiation across the British Isles, and Northern Europe.

Below is their computer recreation of the spread of radiation from the Windscale Fire.

"Revisiting the 1957 Windscale Nuclear Accident using Atmospheric Reanalysis data"

https://shrtm.nu/E7Lj

#nuclear #histodons @histodons #Windscale #Sellafield #STS

RT @Mangeon4
Saviez-vous que le Royaume-Uni fut le théâtre de l’un des premiers accident #nucléaire de l’histoire ? En 1957, l’uranium du réacteur 1 de #Windscale prend feu, entrainant des rejets radioactifs au-dessus de l’Angleterre.

Thread 4 : 1957, l’accident de Windscale
🔽🔽🔽

RT @EvaStegen@twitter.com

10. Oktober 1957, Windscale:
#Brennelemente gehen in Flammen auf.
Massive Freisetzung von Radioaktivität.
Lange versuchte die Regierung
den #Atomunfall zu vertuschen.
Heute, 65Jahre später,
versteckt sich #Windscale
hinter dem Namen #Sellafield.
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/zeitzeichen/zeitzeichen-reaktorunfall-windscale-100.html #atoms4war