Published: November 7th, 2012 at 1:41 pm ET
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Title:Sellafield nuclear waste storage is ‘intolerable risk’
Source: BBC News
Date: 7 November 2012
h/t Anonymous tip
An “intolerable risk” is being posed by hazardous waste stored in run-down buildings at Sellafield nuclear plant, a watchdog has found.
The National Audit Office (NAO) [...] concluded that over the five decades it was open, operators failed to plan how to dispose of the radioactive waste and some of the older facilities have “deteriorated so much that their contents pose significant risks to people and the environment”. [...]
Margaret Hodge, who chairs the public accounts committee, said: [...] “Hazardous radioactive waste is housed in buildings which pose ‘intolerable risks to people and the environment’. [...]
Dr Ruth Balogh, of West Cumbria and North Lakes Friends of the Earth [said] “We shouldn’t build any new nuclear reactors if we can’t deal with the radioactive mess that’s already been created.”
See also: Mag: Evidence linking nuclear plants to ill health increasingly compelling, "clear something is going" says prof. -- UK gov't blames unidentified virus for childhood leukemia rise
Published: November 7th, 2012 at 1:41 pm ET
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New NRC post, please visit, review, comment in a fairly nice but critical way
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That doesnt make sense “allows them time to get backup systems ready”
Sheesh, if its a backup system, it ought to be ready 24/7
I heard your EDGs don’t get tested under load and operating the actual emergency circuits they would need to operate in practice. Please comment on this.
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/11/07/be-prepared-is-also-the-motto-of-u-s-nuclear-plants/
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Just last week Sellafield delivered a load of MOX (recycled German plutonium) for the NPP Grohnde in northern Germany.
We need to shut down all the cancer factories.
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hi bnb heads up!!
EDF’s Penly 1 nuclear reactor in unplanned outage- No cause or a restart date given?
Published: Wednesday, 7 Nov 2012 | 10:02 AM ET
PARIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) – EDF’s 1,300-MW Penly 1 nuclear reactor stopped in an unplanned outage at 1450 GMT on Wednesday, France’s power grid RTE said on its website.
RTE did not give a cause or a restart date.
(Reporting by Axelle du Crest)
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/edfs-penly-1-nuclear-reactor-in-unplanned-outage-no-cause-or-a-restart-date-given/
time to ready the plain choclate and orange juice perhaps?
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Thanks arc! Last week Cattenom's director had to admit that their clunker tripped into emergency shutdown twice as often over the past 4 years than EDF reported!
For various reasons, I have dark chocolate at hand any time…
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And they send the nuclear waste so generated to ?
Even smaart phones laptops i phones and pads use rare earths and their wastes containing uranium, thorium are contaminaating Mayasians and Chinese and Mongolians and possibly monazite mining area's communities in Kerala. See
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/11/rare-earth-elements-iphone-malaysia
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"Intolerable Risk" applies to every reactor in the world. Each is a time-bomb, train-wreck, ready to happen.
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"An “intolerable risk” is being posed by hazardous waste…. And it is true in the U.S. as well. They have no place for it to go and some plants are almost filled up with nuclear waste.
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My dad only worked at the marshalling yards where BNFL casks came thru in the NW – came home with a swollen neck back in the 80's. Went white with some of the things he saw whilst on contract to them.
Under a specialist now for mystery lung breathlessness…
Kind of sums up the government's capacity for death that the stuff is still trundling around Europe..
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@53north
thanks for the testimony.. hope things work out ok for your dad..
we need to a grips of this waste etc in the uk,, nuclear corporations has proved that the "kick the can down the road" theory works well for the shareholders.. now maybe the shareholders can replace some of that profit they have been making on cleaning up the results of their profits..
peace
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@ 53north. I'm so sorry for your dad, not only his challenges to become healthy once more, but, what it did to him to see sometimes what others were doing. There are others like him who have stories that would make our jaws drop. Wouldn't it be a kindness if there were a support group for those who saw such things and worked in such conditions? They probably wouldn't feel comfortable telling the whole world, but, they could at least share their experiences with others in the group ad not feel alone. I hope the doctors are taking into consideration the materials he was exposed to back in the 80's that could wreak havoc on his immune system now.
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Margaret Hodge did not mince her words in the report. Not just 'intolerable risk' but 'intolerable risk to people and the environment'.
If intolerable for the people of Cumbria, why has the UK government facilitated the takeover of the Horizon nuclear facility in Anglesea by Hitachi/GE, a facility abandoned by the German investors? Because of the company's outstanding safety record? Or because there are no jobs in Anglesea?
And why did none of the press reports in the UK on the takeover mention the link between Hitachi and GE? Has GE had some adverse press coverage recently?
The UK government is playing high stakes roulette with its energy policy. The poor people of Fukushima know what it is like to lose.
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i think you will find GE and hitachi are working together.. i reckon the heavy forging will be done in china .. there was a press release that the iaea had done a deal with china for large metal works..
this has been played down because the quality satandards in china are lower… and cheaper ..
its interesting what they are NOT saying…
great comment
peace
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GE runs the press coverage, they own 620 media outlets.
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great point stock.. and WPP will be lurking around.. statoil.. lord mandelson, tony blair.. and BP`s new deal with the russians
and we are back on topic with my posts below..
the deal is done.. imo the commodity wars latest battle.. imo
the great carve up of the earths resources and spaces
and no one is telling people that..
GE and WPP again??
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extract from or-wells poem seems appropriate here
"..They have protection,
using connections,
avoiding inspection,
squashing objections.
Barrons of Bafflegab,
Sultans of Spin,
Marguis' of Media,
smoke and mirrors within.
Counts of Colleges,
Dukes of University,
Regents of Research,
full of perversity.
Teachers complicit,
Healers obstructed,
Farmers co-opted,
nations corrupted…"
and the rest here…
http://enenews.com/forum-topic-discussion-thread-feb-26-2012-present/comment-page-59#comment-302551
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I think those are called "illuminating questions" DrSpindrift.
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Britain’s nuclear push may stall as risks mount -Reuters
“To put money into UK nuclear would be crazy,” said Dominic Nash, a utilities analysts at London-based investment bank Liberum Capital.
Energy Fair, a research group of energy economists opposed to nuclear, said in a report last month that the true cost of nuclear could even be over 200 pounds per MWh once “hidden subsidies” are taken into account.
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/britains-nuclear-push-may-stall-as-risks-mount-reuters/
Britain’s ultimate phallic symbol – useless, expensive Trident nuclear missile
many defence experts now argue that a replacement deterrent is something that the UK neither needs nor can afford
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/britains-ultimate-phallic-symbol-useless-expensive-trident-nuclear-missile/
U.K. Will Reject EDF Nuclear Deal That Puts Burden on Consumers, Bloomberg By Sally Bakewell – Nov 6, 2012 The U.K. government is prepared to walk away from a deal with Electricite de France SA over plans to build the first nuclear plant in the country since the 1980s if the power price demanded by the utility is too high.
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/more-doublespeak-from-uk-energy-minister-about-nuclear-subsidies/
and for you young people.. usa pop star visits uk nuclear
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/nicki-minaj-goes-from-hawaii-beach-to-dungeness-nuclear-power-station-and-cornelia-hesse-honegger/
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screw nuclear uk!!
saikato hantai!!
screw hitachi/GE too!
Nuclear waste to burn at Sellafield?
MARK LEFTLY
SUNDAY 01 JULY 2012
GE Hitachi is poised to hand nuclear authorities a report that the US-Japanese joint venture believes will prove that Britain can solve its 100-tonne plutonium waste problem by burning it.
The UK’s stockpile is the biggest civil waste deposit in the world, and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which is responsible for cleaning it up, had planned to convert the plutonium into fuel for other reactors.
However, GE Hitachi will say in a feasibility study to be handed to the NDA in the next two weeks that its Prism fast-reactor design could eliminate the waste, with the bonus of producing low-carbon electricity. The group wants to build a plant at Sellafield in Cumbria, and has agreed to submit a study to the NDA, which has previously been sceptical over fast-reactor technology.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/nuclear-waste-to-burn-at-sellafield-7901669.html
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TY, arclight. They are making sure that the whole world will suffer for the mistakes of the nuclear industry. The whole world up in smoke.
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thought i might pop this here too
Hammerfest LNG set sails for Japan via Arctic route with 2 nuclear ice breakers -norway (escorted by russian nuclear icebreakers, nuclear free norway? if the money is right, maybe not?)
By
Thomas Nilsen
November 06, 2012
When the tanker makes port call in Japan in less than two weeks’ time, her LNG cargo is highly appreciated by energy companies. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, Japan is in nearly desperate need for energy sources to replace nuclear power. So far, only two reactors have been restarted after all of Japan’s plants were shut down for stress tests after Fukushima. Anti-nuclear movements have good times in Japan.
The LNG-tanker will be escorted by Russian nuclear powered icebreakers for most of the route along the north coast of Siberia. The 2012 season for sailing the route will be historical for two reasons; never before has the sailing season been so long – and never before has so much cargo been shipped along the route.
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/07/hammerfest-lng-set-sails-for-japan-via-arctic-route-with-2-nuclear-ice-breakers/
russia have the control of the north sea passage? nice move!!
and they are building more icebreakers
and polluting the arctic for 50 years with heavy industry in the north..
nice move indeed..
forward planning..
and they confirmed ownership too!
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/10/31/russia-top-secret-nuclear-sub-used-to-prove-north-pole-claim/
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an accident waiting too happen??
Russia late last week set the Severodvinsk, the most expensive nuclear submarine it has ever produced, to a another round of sea trials in hopes of testing its rickety missile launch systems and seeing if some 2000 other kinks identified in earlier trials have been worked out, Izvestia reported.
Charles Digges, 05/11-2012
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/severodvinsk_more_delays
or just an ecological tragedy?
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Trude Pettersen
October 24, 2012
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Arctic clean-up expedition launched
Russia’s Arctic national park will be cleaned for €37 million
In a study published earlier this week in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, marine biologist and deep-sea expert at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Dr. Melanie Bergmann, examined 2100 photographs of the Arctic seafloor at a depth of around 2500 meters in the Fram Strait between Greenland and Svalbard.
The quantities of waste observed are even higher than those found in a deep-sea canyon near the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
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…she suspects that the shrinking and thinning of the Arctic sea ice may play an important role. “Ship traffic has increased enormously since the ice cover has been continuously shrinking and getting thinner.
http://barentsobserver.com/en/nature/arctic-trash-doubled-past-decade-24-10
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hmmm..arclight, a case where global warming and sea ice melt leads to greater use of hydrocarbons which increases global warming and sea ice melt. The USA, Russia ad Japan and some European countries are already placing claims for the seafloor mineral extraction rights once all the ice melts enough. So, i don't think we'll see that industry admitting to global warming anytime soon and i fully expect them to continue to spend billions in spin campaigns every year to confuse the public about the actual global warming science. Remember the "Warming Earth" campaign back in the 1990's when they still admitted to global warming and tried to fob it off as a good thing? Big, big, bucks the likes they haven't seen in a long time if they can keep people from worrying about a warming earth.
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and then there is the pollution from uk welsh and scottish nuclear sites too!
the arctic is soooo buggered..
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If and when Russia gets tired of Turkey attacking Syria; the buildup to squash Iran; the antagonism of Georgia; the many millions of ill gotten Roubles stashed in Switzerland; the relief of Gaddafi's tribes in Algeria now; the posturing of Merkel…the spy refuge in Britain
…then Nostradamus foresaw the UK blockaded from Vladivostok…and everybody said WTF?, and tried to read more into the quatrain.
Hitler snd Napolean both underestimated Russia's Eastern factories…
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Well said 53north.
@Dr.Spindrift
As shown in this link I previously posted, Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy is a subsidiary of Hitachi. Hmmm.
(excerpt)
Hitachi will use its Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) that it can offer through its joint venture arrangements with General Electric. The subsidiary Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy will manage the engineering and manufacturing of the Horizon ABWRs while three engineering firms have signed memorandums of understanding with Hitachi to explore cooperation: Rolls-Royce, Babcock International and SNC-Lavalin.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/C_Hitachi_will_seek_investors_in_Horizon_0211121.html
Also, to re-iterate the dangers of SNC-Lavalin
"SNC-Lavalin and the Demise of CANDU Competence"
Fraud, money-laundering, corruption of officials and human trafficking.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/international-whats-new/2012/5/31/gordon-edwards-snc-lavalin-and-the-demise-of-candu-competenc.html?printerFriendly=true
This fits in nicely with EXSKF's story today about CANDU reactors in Romania.
Unexpected Shutdown of Cernavoda Nuke Plant in Romania "did not effect the safety of the population or the environment", says the Government
Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has two CANDU pressurized heavy water reactors.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/unexpected-shutdown-of-cernavoda-nuke.html
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i added to that romania release.. caught em napping..
Unexpected Shutdown of Cernavoda Nuke Plant in Romania -Registered radiation in Switzerland
“did not effect the safety of the population or the environment”, says the Government
8 November 2012
The same refrain (or the famous last word), the world over.
Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant has two CANDU pressurized heavy water reactors.
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/09/unexpected-shutdown-of-cernavoda-nuke-plant-in-romania-registered-radiation-in-switzerland/
a switch off for the dense cloud and a smaller cloud caught the monitor on the hop
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Ooops, and didn't see this one coming.
Laser lab shifts focus to warheads
US ignition facility will devote less time to energy research.
After an unsuccessful campaign to demonstrate the principles of a futuristic fusion power plant, the world’s most powerful laser facility is set to change course and emphasize its nuclear weapons research.
http://www.nature.com/news/laser-lab-shifts-focus-to-warheads-1.11745
Does this mean that the Orion Laser Facility at Aldermaston, UK (the sister venture of the NIF) can now be cancelled? I think not.
AWE Orion Laser Could take on US Warhead Design and Testing
http://www.nuclearinfo.org/article/awe-aldermaston/awe-orion-laser-could-take-us-warhead-design-and-testing
Oh come on.. I've moved all the way back from California to now have this almost on my doorstep. I don't bloody believe it.
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you can run but ye cant hide
we will just have to "shut em down"
easy!
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cop this cameron
UK ‘child abuse’ allegations “these revelations are only the tip of the iceberg”
”we know here at NAPAC, that there are more names to come that will shock the nation.. ” (Video)
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/11/10/uk-child-child-abuse-allegations-these-revelations-are-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/
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