Turning the North Sea into a nuclear dump

[frualeydis]

I know that our current government are complete assholes, selfish bastards who don't give a sh*t about the environment and probably even gloat over the fact that unemployed and ill people are getting much poorer with their politics. But I didn't think they would start sending our used up uranium to Sellafield again. We stopped doing that in the 80s, because of the massive problems of radioactive leakage out in the North sea, and parts of it is even getting closed due to these problems (over twenty years too late), but that won't stop our new government, oh no!
We had a decision that we should take responsibility for our own nuclear waste, but in this no regulations market economy dream world were everything is for sale I guess responsibility isn't worth anything.

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[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Of course things change, but the latest serious incident was in 2005. And the real issue for me is our responsibility for our own waste.

/Eva

[nazgman.livejournal.com]

I found this entry on the wiki page you linked to:

Contracts signed since 1976 between BNFL and overseas customers require that all high level waste (HLW) be returned to the country of origin. The UK retains low- and intermediate-level waste resulting from its reprocessing activity, and instead ships out a radiologically equivalent amount of its own HLW. This substitution policy is intended to be environmentally neutral and to speed "return" of overseas material by reducing the number of shipments required, since HLW is far less bulky.

It seems the government can't buy their way out of responsibility for nuclear waste.

Just out of curiosity: is processed waste still being dumped in the North Sea? From what I can tell, this was a practice by Sellafield of something like half a century ago.

To put things in perspective, google coal and radiation, add slag if you want to narrow down the results. That type of radioactive waste is not even dumped safely away from humans, but even used as building materials...

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's not dumped, I didn't say that, but there has been leakage.