£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan - https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/07/mps_find_127_million_wasted_sellafield/ "Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go" what a fiasco #sellafield #windscale
#Windscale
Cet incident #nucléaire, dissimulé, qui aurait bien pu contaminer le nord de l'Europe
"Le 7 octobre 1957, dans le comté de Cumbria au nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, un incendie se déclare à la #CentraleNucléaire de #Windscale, aujourd’hui rebaptisée #Sellafield.
L’accident est classé au niveau 5 sur l’échelle internationale des événements nucléaires #INES (International Nuclear Event Scale) allant de 0 à 7."
TheGuardian:
"
.. cost of cleaning up Sellafield is expected to spiral to £136bn and Europe’s biggest nuclear waste dump cannot show how it offers taxpayers value for money ..
"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/sellafield-cleanup-cost-136bn-national-audit-office
23.10.2024
#Atomkraft #Atommüll #GreatBritain #Großbritannien #Kernenergie #NAO #NDA #NuclearWaste #reprocessing #Sellafield #UK #Wiederaufarbeitung #Wiederaufbereitung #Windscale
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 12. Oktober 1957 sammelte sich ein 9000m³ großer radioaktiver See um den #Kernreaktor #Windscale wo es zwei Tage zuvor zu einem schweren Brand kam. Die Bevölkerung wurde erst jetzt gewarnt, Millionen Liter kontaminierte Milch heimlich ins Meer entsorgt.
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 11. Oktober 1957 wurde das Feuer im #Kernreaktor von #Windscale nach riskanten Löschversuchen unter Kontrolle gebracht. Bereits am 10. Oktober war der Brand ausgebrochen und hatte radioaktive Stoffe freigesetzt. Die Öffentlichkeit wurde nicht informiert.
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 10. Oktober 1957 kam es im britischen #Kernkraftwerk #Windscale, infolge einer Verkettung von Ereignissen ab dem 8. Oktober, zu einem schweren Reaktorbrand, der Radioaktivität freisetzte. Rund 240 Menschen starben später an den Folgen von #Lungenkrebs.
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 9. Oktober 1957 kam es zu einem drastischen Temperaturanstieg im #Kernreaktor #Windscale (heute #Sellafield) Pile 1, der am Vortag eingeleitet wurde. Fehlende Temperaturmessstellen und unzureichende Überwachung führten zu kritischen Werten über 400 °C.
Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 8. Oktober 1957 wurde der #Kerneaktor Pile 1 in #Windscale (heute #Sellafield) trotz fehlender Messstellen weiter aufgeheizt was zwei Tage später unbemerkt in einen Brand mündete und zum schlimmsten #Nuklearunfall (INES 5) in #Großbritannien führte.
This was the #Chalkriver accident . It preceded the better known accidents at #windscale - later renamed #sellafield - in #england by some years.
Next should be crimes against humanity and the future:
"Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cybersecurity failings"
#Sellafield #Windscale #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #ColdWar
"The Irish Times is given rare access to the most dangerous nuclear facility in western Europe" - yet there are still people touting nuke as a solution for Ireland #Nuclear #Toxic #Sellafield #Windscale https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/03/30/inside-sellafield-behind-the-razor-wire-gun-toting-guards-and-blast-barriers-at-the-toxic-nuclear-site/
#Sellafield #NuclearWaste dump to be prosecuted for alleged #ITsecurity offences
Charges relate to four-year period between 2019 and early 2023, and follows Guardian investigation
Sellafield, which has more than 11,000 staff, was placed into a form of “special measures” for consistent failings on #cybersecurity in 2022, according to sources at the #ONR and the #SecurityServices.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/28/sellafield-nuclear-waste-dump-to-be-prosecuted-for-alleged-it-security-offences
#Windscale
Learn about the unprecedentedly powerful #hurricanes caused by #climatechange and the advocacy for a new #Category6 on the #SaffirSimpson #Windscale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOlaRygT2c&feature=youtu.be
Spending watchdog launches investigation into #Sellafield
#NationalAuditOffice to examine risks and costs at #NuclearWaste site in #Cumbria
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/spending-watchdog-launches-investigation-into-sellafield
#Windscale #ToryPoliciesInAction #NuclearPower #NAO
“Earthquake causes No catastrophic damage to #nuclear power plants.”
We have to be told this because last time .. Fukushima.
Those promoting Nuclear as Clean, Reliable, & Economic want us to forget the #Windscale reactor fire back in 1957 is still being decommissioned.
Just managing, guarding, monitoring, maintaining derelict Nuclear sites costs billions each year. There is a daily consumer tax on energy users to pay the estimated £260 billion cost of decommissioning for the next 100 years.
Windscale/Sellafield is a toxic dump in more ways than one https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/06/sellafield-toxic-culture-bullying-harassment-safety #Windscale #Sellafield #Toxic
#TheGuardian: "Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public"
".. worsening leak from a huge silo of rad. waste ..
.. cracks in a reservoir of toxic sludge known as B30 ..
.. leak of rad. liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” .. Magnox swarf storage Silo (MSSS) – is likely to continue to 2050 .."
5.12.2023
#Atomkraft #Atommüll #England #GreatBritain #Kernenergie #Magnox #MSSS #ONR #Sellafield #UK #Wiederaufbereitung #Windscale
"Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of radioactive waste that could pose a risk to the public...
The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site – is likely to continue to 2050."
Revealed: #Sellafield #nuclear site has #leak that could pose #RiskToPublic
Safety concerns at #Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with #US, #Norway and #Ireland
‘Dirty 30’ and its toxic siblings: the most dangerous parts of the Sellafield site
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public
#Windscale
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