TheGuardian:
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.. 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 ..
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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
via #NIRS
[PDF] Revelation of Endless N-damage Cover-ups: the “TEPCO scandal” and the adverse trend of easing inspection standards
Nov./Dec. 2002
Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
"There has been a series of significant nuclear accidents over the past few years. To name a few, there was the #Monju sodium leakage acci-
dent in December 1995, the #Tokai #reprocessing plant asphalt drum explosion accident in March 1997, and the JCO criticality accident in
September 1999. On each occasion, the electric companies claimed that the nuclear power plants are operated with strict safety management. Since August 2002, however, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the largest electric utility in the nation and several other electric companies have plunged into a chain of scandals."
https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/reactorwatch/accidents/nit92.pdf
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #IAEAHides #TEPCOLies
#FukushimaIsntOver #NoDumping #NuclearPowerPlants #RadioactiveWater #RethinkNotRestart #PacificOcean #DataFalsification
🗑️ Rosatom announces novel used fuel processing technology
#nuclear #energy #reprocessing #waste #circulareconomy #russia #technology
#Supai, #Ute, #Dine', #Arapaho, and #Lakota Testify on #Uranium #Exploitation before #InterAmericanCommission on #HumanRights
"The legacy of #UraniumMining in the #Southwest is death from #cancer and unreclaimed uranium mines. Now the contamination threatens the #ColoradoRiver. Tilousi urged the Commission to support the tribes efforts and pressure the #UnitedStates to change the #1872MiningLaw that allows international companies to seize #PublicLand for mining."
by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
March 1, 2024
WASHINGTON -- "'There was no respect for the people living on these lands, and certainly no respect for #MotherEarth,' Edith Hood, Dine' from Red Water Pond Road community, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
"'The government was aware of the risks and the dangers but failed and neglected to inform our people.'
"Dine', Havasupai, Northern Arapaho, Oglala Lakota and #WhiteMesa Ute testified on uranium exploitation by the United States on Wednesday, during the session, 'Impacts of Uranium Exploitation on #IndigenousPeoples' Rights.'
"The #BIA, #EPA and #NuclearRegulatoryCommission praised themselves, and attempted to #CoverUp the legacy of death from uranium mining, strewn #RadioactiveWaste, and deadly uranium mills in Indian country.
Eric Jantz, legal director of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, disagreed with the United States assertions.
Jantz pointed out that the U.S. appears to want Native people to sacrifice more for 'national security' -- rather than to deal with the devastation. As for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it has not honored public comments. And as for the EPA, it's too late. There are more than 500 uranium mine sites waiting to be cleaned up on the Navajo Nation. Zero have been fully cleaned up, Jantz told the Commission.
"'Our ancestors remains were desecrated to build the mill,' Anthony Badback, Ute Mountain Ute at White Mesa, told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights today in Washington. Badback testified that #EnergyFuels uranium mill has contaminated the #groundwater, plants, birds, #wildlife, and air in his community in southeastern #Utah.
"The young people are getting asthma, and the people can no longer use their spring water for ceremonies. Ute must buy bottled water to drink, and no longer hunt because of the contamination. Now, the mill is bringing in international waste and has become a low-level radioactive waste repository, because of the lax standards of the state of Utah. 'We want the mill to be shut down,' Badback told the Commission. 'Please help us.'
Read more: https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html
#WaterIsLife #NuclearWaste #UraniumMills #Reprocessing #IndigenousActivism
#CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism
#NoNukes #NoNewNukes
#RenewablesNow #NoMining #UraniumMining
"#Japan #Atomic Energy Agency .. cost taxpayers 36.1 billion yen to rectify .. shoddy storage of .. #waste in a storage pool at .. #Tokai #Reprocessing Plant,.."
"~ 800 containers of transuranic #radioactive waste, or "#TRU waste," were dropped in.. pool from 1977 to 1991 using a wire in the now-disused plant ..emit high levels of #radiation."
"Some .. had .. shape altered by .. impact of being dropped."
#Atomkraft #Kernenergie "#Wiederaufarbeitung"
16.1.2023
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
"When asked about #nuclear #reprocessing, #IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi downplayed the chances it would become a reality in many new places soon."""I don't see many really looking seriously into reprocessing," Grossi told #Reuters.." ""Reprocessing is a very difficult technology that requires a lot of infrastructure.": https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/cop27-un-nuclear-chief-says-radioactive-waste-recycling-is-difficult-technology-2022-11-10/ - #Wiederaufbereitung mit ihren Konsequenzen ist auch etwas, das die Wunderkraftwerk-Lobbyisten sehr gerne ausblenden. #Atomkraft / #Kernenergie
Philadelphia Incident
Sept. 2, 1944. Peter N. Bragg Jr. (24) and Douglas P. Meigs (26), two chemists on the Manhattan Project (#atomicbomb) at the Navel Research Lab., Philadelphia. When they tried to open a tube in a #uranium enrichment plant, a violent uranium hexafluoid explosion occurred. This produced hydrofluoric acid. Within minutes, both died in the radioactive, acidic cloud.
#Nuclearpower #énergienucléaire #Reprocessing
