Many nations are embracing #nuclearpower as a #lowcarbon energy generating technology. Meanwhile the massively expensive and as yet unsolved disposal problem of #radioactivewaste threatens all life forms over the long term. The current favoured solution is to bury the high and intermediate level wastes. #fukushima #chernobyl #hanford #sellafield are massively contaminated sites. #water
https://www.governing.com/climate/nuclear-power-could-save-our-air-quality-at-what-cost-to-the-water

Laut britischer Atomaufsicht ONR haben die Arbeiten zur Rückholung mittelradioaktiver #Abfälle aus einem alternden Silo am Standort #Sellafield begonnen: https://news.onr.org.uk/2023/08/major-waste-retrievals-milestone-at-sellafield/

Mit Schaudern denken wir an die Bilder aus #Tschernobyl ☢️, auf denen Du zeigtest, was in Dir steckt. Hinzu kommen die vielen weiteren Orte, die für immer mit Deinem Wirken verbunden sein werden: #Sellafield, #Belojarsk, #Monroe, #Fukushima - um nur ein paar zu nennen.

5/ #moa

Divers enter Sellafield nuclear pool for first time in 65 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-65113701

#Sellafield #Cumbria #NuclearPower #Decommissioning

The deadly legacy of nuclear power and weapons programmes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site
#DeathlyHallows
#EdgeOfDarkness
#Sellafield
#Windscale
#NuclearWaste
#Plutonium
#Uranium
#Magnox

The process of dismantling the decommissioned UK #Sellafield #nuclear site will cost at least £121bn and will be finished a century or so from now.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

HT @ehooge

In case you missed it...

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

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

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

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

Nothing is produced at #Sellafield any more. 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

All the more reason, not to build new #nuclear plants...

@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

Excellent piece.

"A moment of use, centuries of quarantine: radiation tends to twist time all out of proportion."

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

#NuclearWaste #Sellafield #LongRead

RT @janhaverkamp
This is fantasticly describing #UK #Sellafield. The "Into Eternity" for #nuclear #reprocessing. One of the best pieces describing part of why I do what I do. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

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

Interesting long read.

#nuclear #sellafield

#Sellafield
#NuclearEnergy, that poisonous nightmare.

This is a MUST READ.
There are so many points to highlight, that writing a thread would be repeating the article.

Do yourself a favour and read it.

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

Interested in #NuclearPower ?Think nuclear should be included as a "#green fuel" #energy source? And that it is safe? This report on a visit to #Sellafield in UK is an eye-opener. Want to know what happens to spent fuel? Or contaminated paper towels? Or how long, measured in thousands of years, repeat thousands of years, the nuclear #radiation will be still around? Read on https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

This is fantasticly describing #UK #Sellafield. The "Into Eternity" for #nuclear #reprocessing. One of the best pieces describing part of why I do what I do. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

This is fantasticly describing #UK #Sellafield. The "Into Eternity" for #nuclear #reprocessing. One of the best pieces describing part of why I do what I do. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

Excellent #LongRead on the series of 'mishaps', accidents and leaks at #Sellafield #nuclear site by #TheGuardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

"More dangerous still are the 20 tonnes of melted fuel inside a reactor that caught fire in 1957 and has been sealed off and left alone ever since."

"Sellafield has stored the 140 tonnes of plutonium it has purified over the decades. It’s the largest such hoard in the world, but it, too, is a kind of waste, simply because nobody knows what to do with it."