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United Kingdom: Sellafield nuclear site has 'elevated levels of radioactivity'
2014-01-31 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Sellafield nuclear site is being operated with a reduced number of staff following the detection overnight of elevated levels of radioactivity. Non-essential staff are being told not to come to work, although this is described as a precautionary measure, and in a statement the site's operator said there was "no risk to the general public or workforce". It is unclear how long the plant will operate with reduced staffing but a few hundred workers are understood to be on the site. The statement...
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United Kingdom: Nuclear waste site consultation was rigged to favour Sellafield, say experts
2014-01-18 22:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government stands accused of drafting the consultation process to select the site of a multibillion-pound nuclear waste storage facility to favour a location that some geologists claim is unsuitable for burying radioactive material. Two leading geologists told the Observer that they believed the government was keen to push through Sellafield as the site of the facility, a subterranean tunnel network that would be the size of Carlisle, despite an official inquiry demonstrating that its geology...
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Scientists set to demolish Sellafield chimney on site of Britains worst nuclear accident
2013-09-06 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Demolition has begun on the site of Britains worst nuclear accident, as scientists are brought in to dismantle the infamous Sellafield chimney. The 110-metre structure on the old Windscale plutonium-producing plant at Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site in Cumbria will finally be cleaned up more than half a century since a fire broke out in its graphite core, in late 1957. It is being dismantled after site managers said the radioactivity had now decayed to safe enough levels to work in. Steve...
United Kingdom: Sellafield to be prosecuted for sending radioactive waste to wrong disposal site
2013-02-07 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: Sellafield has pleaded guilty to sending several bags of radioactive waste to the wrong facility, according to the Office for Nuclear Regulation. The nuclear power company admitted sending four bags of mixed general waste to the Lillyhall landfill site in Workington, Cumbria, in April 2010. The bags, which contained waste such as plastic, tissues and clothing, should have gone to the low level waste repository, at Drigg. Sellafield Limited said the error was caused by a new monitor which...
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British Report Says Sellafield Costs Soaring as Cleanup Lags
2013-02-05 23:16:18| ENR.com: Headline News
The average cost charged last year by the Nuclear Management Partners consortium for 16 executives reached $1.1 million with the highest earner costing the NDA $1.9 million.
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