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I heard some rather alarming stories about indidents at Sellafield today. Does anyone know why the plant is closed at the moment? Something to do with a tank of radioactive liquid.

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aint seen nowt on the news,unless our "Open" government are suppressing it?

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That is from the 1st of Feb tho

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ah remember that, but nowt since.:confused:

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Could be, sounded a little more negligent to me when I heard the story

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ya didn't here it from a student did ya?:D

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I found this in the Independant dated Feb 3rd
'Shambolic' Sellafield in crisis again after damning safety report - Green Living, Environment - Independent.co.uk

an extract-
Two of the three evaporators have been shut due to safety problems, and there are continuing "difficulties" with vitrification. But the most alarming issue is the failure of equipment needed to cool the waste, which could, at worst, lead to an explosion, scattering radioactivity across much of the country. Studies suggest that for every tank that exploded 210,000 people would die from cancer.

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Haven't we just been told there are going to be a load more nuk stations put up around the country, nuclear power stations are fine, but not if they are managed like Sellafield at present:eek::confused:

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they will probably use the sellafield/windscale sight is a very old one n technology has advanced so yer much safer excuse.:( remember a report yrs ago, about fishermen catching cod with 3 heads etc,off the cumbrian coast, but even with that,the price of fish n chips never came down.:D

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In the late 80s we used to put our touring caravan on a site at Ainsdale for the month every August. My husband used to go sea fishing with another chap who had his caravan and boat on the site. At first we used to cook what he caught, particularly mackerel, but then we started noticing "burn" marks on some of the fish. We had to assume it was contamination from Sellafield.