Why is Sellafield Europe's most dangerous nuclear site?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Sellafield's controversial history dates back to the Cold War, when the huge industrial site played a crucial role in the UK’s development of nuclear weapons.
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A Guardian investigation can now reveal that Sellafield has failed to contain numerous threats, including a cyber security breach by groups linked to Russia and China, and growing physical cracks in its ‘most hazardous facility’.
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I would have thought the most dangerous nuclear site in Europe would be in Zaporizhia
Yeh that’s what I assumed too
Well, it is the Guardian lol
No, you're thinking of the guardian hq.
That's the most dangerous site.😂
Indeed. I was questioning their maps in the opening.
It will be, but you don't expect the lefty Guardian to say that do you
How do we know when the media is lying about nuclear. When the guardian does an investigation and inserts Geiger counter sounds.
I work in nuclear and I regularly work with people who spend time on the Sellafield site.
This is incredibly sensationalist journalism and they've made such little effort to conceal their agenda that it is just blatant fear mongering. To compare the waste in Sellafield (used fuel and low-level waste) to the Chernobyl power station (an active reactor packed with live fuel and the conditions for criticality) is ludicrous.
Also the UK disposal project, has found 3 willing communities and huge amounts of studies have been put into the project to ensure it's safe. Nuclear isn't ideal but it's far better than coal and gas.
I get what you're saying but it's still a national disgrace. It's still Europe's most hazardous nuclear site that has huge economic impact.
@@benpinder889 Tell me about it's huge economic impact.
@@TheStubertos For you to argue it's not, yeah I'm okay thanks.
But all radiation is the same! Didn't you know that? A glove with a smudge of unpurified uranium salts on it is just as dangerous as a pure 1 gram sample of polonium-210, which is just as dangerous as soil contaminated with strontium-90. And we all know that your cell phone is far more dangerous than all of those sources put together. Never mind your microwave oven. That thing will give you radiation poisoning[sic] in a second without the lead shielding.
[READ: IMPORTANT] This was (hopefully) obviously just a joke. But on the off chance someone took it seriously (you never know) nothing above was true.
So which parts of this piece are you contesting, which parts are not factual?
And, 'willing communities'? You imply that they were given a choice.
What you failed to add is the company who run the UK nuclear facilities is French and has been importing waste from the plants in France and failed to build the six new power stations they promised when they won the contract. Chernobyl was a gigantic mistake caused by shifts not handing over properly and tests being carried without authorisation, the chances of this happening in UK is slim and scaremongering by anti Nuclear groups does not help.
UK nuclear facilities is French and has been importing waste from the plants in France"
Phukn Tories outsource everything.
THEY HAVE BEEN IMPORTING WASTE SINCE AT LEAST THE 70S . MY MATE WAS AN OFFICER ON BOARD A SHIP THAT DONE 2 TRIPS A YEAR FROM JAPAN . .
lol did you just call Gordon a Tory? @@z0n0ph0ne
Sellafield isn't owned by the French.
Nuclear waste is actually just a fuel we can't use yet.
RUclips needs Community Notes like X. So much misinformation in this article it's ridiculous. Classic Guardian.
Oh Guardian… You have no idea… Shame on you…
This is what we need, more nuclear fear mongering. Let’s put scary music and stock footage together, compare it to Chernobyl-whether or not it’s accurate or relevant! There’s no reason to take this remotely seriously considering they’re clearly more interested in fancy graphics than accurate reporting.
Isn't it better to have thorough independent scrutiny and oversight of risks to health and life than to choose the path of complacency. Plus, has this Tory government given the British, European and global populations reasons to trust their professionalism and care for the safety of the population. I'd say not. Plus has our security agencies given us reason to trust what they say when they have been found to lie in the name of selling weapons for war and the destruction of other countries which creates further security risks. Sellafield needs huge public investment to provide security. The whole country needs huge public investment because the private enterprise that this government swears by can't deliver. Instead money is syphoned off by greed, and jobs such as building housing is done on the cheap with flammable materials as regulations are slashed. What I am saying is Sellafield is symptomatic of a wider problem with how Britain is governed, but is, as the presenter stated, the most dangerous industrial site in Europe as assessed by the body that oversees nuclear sites. By my judgement your comment oozes with stupidity or ignorance toward the office for nuclear regulation. If you read this, it wouldn't surprise me if you were part of the Conservative party who seem ooze with stupidity.
@@wilfredsterling2124totally agree Wilfred, the government relies on folk sticking their heads in the sand 👍
Agree. Chernobyl was an inherently poor reactor design deliberately driven into an unstable condition. There's absolutely *ZERO* comparison with any reactor in the UK.
The geiger counter got me trembling lol 😂
@@mrb.5610and the Titanic was unsinkable. The fire at Windscale burned for three days and released radioactive fallout which spread across the UK and the rest of Europe.
This sounds very fear mongering to me. Just quick google search shows plutoniums half life is 24k years, so it remains radiocative a lot longer than that, and again with cyber security aspect their internal network that handles the nuclear waste is seperate from their general IT systems meaning no matter how much anyone tries they can't reach it without physically being there. I would love to know what nuclear physics and cyber security degrees the team has because my very limited knowledge on those 2 areas are ringing alarm bells in my head about the validity of this video. After a quick search neither Alex Lawson or Anna Isaac have the qualifications for a story like this.
You don't kick off a video with ICBM launches, dramatic music and the clicks of geiger counters if you have an interest other than vulgarity.
It's not quite true to say Plutonium has a half life and will be around a lot longer. Half life means that 50% of the Plutonium isotope concerned will no longer be the same after the period. It will be a different element. Uranium is exactly the same. Since 24,000 is a short period any Plutonium present when the earth formed is gone into different elements by now. Different isotopes of the same element will have different half lives. The elements with the highest atomic weights and numbers have a greater number of isotopes.
Just report this as misinformation, cause it is misinformation / a journalist who is not informed well on her or his subject. And its only used to fearmonger against nuclear energy.
Simple: reprocess the Plutonium(Pu) and make electricity from that. It's what's in MOX nuclear fuel used in plants currently does. GEH has a plant (search for GEH PRISM) that can use Pu, and other actinides, from spent fuel from light-water reactors to generate electricity; it's not new technology either. Pu isn't waste, it's a valuable resource to generate huge amounts of CO2-free electricity while simultaneously cleaning up Sellafield.
Breathtakingly irresponsible journalism. The journalist's assertion that plutonium "remains radioactive for 24,000 years" shows they don't even understand the most fundamental concept of half-life.
Imagine the horror when they realise that uranium which is still radioactive has been on the planet since it formed. Even worse, the lead in car batteries will at least in part be a radioactive ☢️ by product from natural sources. There's also radioactive radon being released in various places and that may even cross to Ireland from the UK! The lack of proper education in sciences for 30yrs is taking its toll.
Well it's true. It's actually much longer than that. But that (true) snippet is more impactful than a longer explanation that we're all radioactive for ever....
@@ManchesterMan-zy5ye 'potentially'
The likelihood of a Chernobyl scale event is essentially zero.
That was said before Fukushima, too.
@@Benedictus-tl5uz Correct. It wasn't just one, it was 4 reactors blowing up.
@@peter_meyer It was contained reasonably well. Updates were made to their world's nuclear infrastructure as a result.
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@@peter_meyerFukushima was totally different wasn't it
Is it just me or am I no better of than before I watched the video? Non of this was news or unexpected. They way it was titled was if they had some kind of expose to say? Or am I wrong?
Absolutely agree
Typical fear mongering for clicks.
False news regurgitated
to scare people can you please explain specifically what's the problem, its a nuclear storage facility. Well protected and audited to the highest safety criteria. End off
Sensational journalism 🤮
Pro-tip: when you hear horror-movie music and sounds in a “news” video-that’s when they’re manipulating you.
Or your watching cartoon network 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Says the guy who is manipulated by the nuclear lobby - just like so many of us for decades. I trust the technology - not the people who run it
Lol, I'm old enough to remember, people dropping dead on the streets of China a few years ago, who's seen it happen in the UK 🤔🤔🤔
Not at all, plenty of people dying from "suddenly" and "unexpectedly" though, I miss actual cause of death being printed
It's nice to see how few people take the guardian seriously..
@@crazychrisfromessex1740 amen to that
They totally missed to explain (intentionally) that spent nuclear fuel (which is the most dangerous one) aka high-level waste, it’s just a small 3% of all the nuclear waste we produce.
90% percent is just lightly-contaminated materials like working cloths and similar.
Goelogical repository IS the only solution.
Spent nuclear fuel being a mere 3% means we accepted to juggle it around for a little longer until someone with enough will, will start digging underground these geological repository (like in Finland)
well... you are reading The Guardian, so what did you actually expect?
Is that relevant to anything in the video? And they did mention the need to bury the waste, which I think is what you're saying that they didn't explain. But, again, that wasn't the point the video was making.
Spent nuclear fuel is actually pretty safe. It contains high active and medium active waste together in a solid form and is stable to store. The problem is when it is reprocessed and the high active waste is separated out. The high active waste is then in a liquid form and is difficult to contain. This is where the vitrification idea came in. I am not sure if this technique has been perfected yet. I can only hope so.
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Even so it can be degraded using fusion.
Absolute Peak Guardian. i'm no nuclear physicist but I know enough about nuclear power that the chernobyl comment got an eye roll from me.
You know someone at the Guardian got paid a lot to write & publish this deceptive article.
@@carterjones8126greenpeace, funded by big oil
They are evil for spreading such lies
Haha love this comment. Nice to see that the British people are able to think for themselves!
Is this an Opinion piece or something?
Full of misinformation, sensationalism and fear mongering. This poor standard of journalism is shocking at such a crucial time for the future of energy and left me with no choice but to cancel my digital subscription.
Do they even know what they're talking about? At 03:20 in, she says that Plutonium "remains radioactive for 24,000 years". Well, Pu-239 has a half-life of about 24,100 years, which is I guess where they got the number from. But "half-life" and "remains radioactive" is not the same thing at all. What utter tosh.
I don't understand the difference. But I realized this video is junk.
@@Deontjiehalf life - time it takes for half of the mass to degrade. So (1) the other half is still plutonium and (2) plutonium decays to Uranium
Straight to the .@@snaporatz
@@Deontjie And from what snaporatz has said, it follows that the half that is still plutonium is obviously going to also be still radioactive!
As someone who has a physics degree and has worked at Sellafield before, this is complete nonsense and portrayed in a way to elicit a certain response from a viewer whom doesn't know any better.
Guardian readers by definition don't know any better. They just think they do.
Which parts were nonsense , specifically ? It's a nuclear site , risks and threats are always there , no ? I've worked there before too and i met a lot of really dense and incompetent people , the site itself constantly fails on it's targets and shows incompetence in many areas also mistakes , accidents or sabotage is always possible , no ?
@@tabularasa7775 Have you really worked there? I could claim I have worked at the Guardian and its full of a lot of really dense and incompetent people, and is supported by kickbacks from the renewable industry. As it happens I wont lie, but I am fairly sure that big money, not a desire to expose the truth, is behind this 'exposé'...
@@tabularasa7775 in 2023 and the future, no it’s far too safe and extremely regulatory. There’s no way anything serious would ever happen.
Very ill informed this report. I would hope that the Guardian would at least get it’d facts right.
Just what we expect from the Guardian - Scaremongering Tripe
Some of us are old enough to have remembered Windscale.
Astonishing how childish and ill informed this is. Cue concerned presenter and Geiger counter crackling sound to irresponsibly whip up fear. Yes there is a large quantity of highly radioactive material at the site and many old buildings that are not ideal. Much progress has been made with this, why wasn't this reported? To draw an equivalence with Chernobyl is the worst form of gutter journalism.
I went there as a child. It was a museum, there was a huge planetarium inside. I don’t know if it’s still like this? But I was on holiday when we went there, the place was full of children looking around this huge interactive museum. The planetarium was amazing. I’ve never forgotten it.
Sorry to say it has all been closed down under the present need for security 😬
I went too, it was fascinating.
Read up on the Windscale fire of 1957. (That's why they changed the name.)
@@rockets4kids I know about that. There was a section of the museum dedicated to it. It was called Sellafield already at the time of the museum.
And know is huge threat for the whole continent....
It’s OK, just the guardian trying to be relevent
The usual half-baked pseudo-science that we can expect from the Guardian. You'd think they would embarrassed but evidently not.
Thanks Guardian, for guaranteeing the continuation of coal burning. 🖕
Questioning the safety of such an important infrastructure doesn't mean that we need to burn coal, it emphasizes that we need to be careful and to invest in nuclear safety.
Germany has already signed off on reopening coal fired power stations.
There are more than two options
Every home and business could generate their own power but how do you control people then eh
From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. As over 98% of the CO2 in the air is produced by plants where is the proof its man made CO2 that is the trigger for global warming? I recall it was claimed only 20 years ago that the climate change and ice melting was due to holes in the Ozone Layer and driven by aerosol; that crisis seems to have been dropped now and its all CO2 !
@@susanb4816There are very few alternatives to nuclear power, coal and natural gas primarily, which are worse in every possible sense. Renewables *cannot* serve the same role as these stable and tunable sources. We need as much renewable energy as possible, and we need nuclear to fill its very real and obvious gaps. This irresponsible fear mongering absolutely does not promote renewables. It’s promoting coal and natural gas.
the guardian out to lie about everything as usual
I just found out that a chipper not to far from sellafield closed recently, they did a lovely leg of cod 😋
Chipper? Wood chipper?
I have so many issues with The Guardian that I am inclined to take this video with a shovel of salt. We need an independent investigation of Guardian’s investigation.
Shame on The Guardian for this misleading content.
Nothing wrong with nuclear power.
More expensive than green alternatives, for one
Radiation causes cancer.
@@CatatonicImperfectIt's a different type of energy service. Nuclear power saves you having to buy energy storage, and lasts twice as long as a wind turbine or solar panel (60 years + for most nuclear power stations, under 30 for most green energy products).
So neither is better or worse, there different solutions for different contexts/geographies.
Yes. But this was one of the world's first nuclear power stations, so they did make some large mistakes.
But they actually produce electricity...when it's needed.
The number of weasel words in this - whatever it is - was extreme, even for the Guardian.
If you comment without reporting this video for misinformation, all you are doing is helping the YT algorithms promote it. Hit that report button, don't be lazy.
There is a report button in YT?
When Windscale was renamed Sellafield, I remember comics joking that radioactivity would now be referred to as "magic moonbeams"...
Not a single mention of the nuclear disaster protocols that the gov has recently issued for the public.
or the warnings to stock up because of upcoming power outages this winter
More BS from a BS media company
Nuclear is the best and cheapest 'green' energy.
I have watched just about every single decent video on RUclips about nuclear meltdowns, critically incidents, orphaned sources, and I can say with confidence that this video is garbage, utter nuclear waste, the only worse catastrophy than Chernobyl is the fact this video exists, this is an awful stain on nuclear energy worse than windscale could ever hope to be
The difference between sellafield and Chernobyl is that sellafield has more CONTAINED nuclear material while Chernobyl used to have nuclear material that then scattered all across Europe
Oh, it's the Guardian.
It took about a minute for the Guardian to blame Russia. Standards are slipping.
Or the far right, Brexit, the tories, Nigel farage etc
Odd. They usually support Russia
I waited the whole video for the big reveal of these major safety fears. None were presented. Instead it turned out to just be a generic nuclear scare word jumble. Shame on you.
"sellafield is the most dangerous industrial site in Europe"
Meanwhile Chernobyl:
As a Guardian reader I find this embarrassing. A series of sensationalist headlines trotted out about unrelated elements of an enormous site. Right of reply limited to tacking on a statement at the end of the piece and not even voicing any sections of it. Stick to print.
delete this lil bro.
no mention of cockrofts follies and the part they played. sheer negativity.
Other than nuclear what do these reporters suggest. Oh that’s right intermittent wind and even more intermittent sun for solar 😂
Back to horse and cart it is then.
And I believe everything the Guardian says,not!
The Guardian was the last place I ever expected to see fearmongering and misinformation. RIP 1821 - 2023
Really? Bless!
A very misleading report- shame on you Guardian
When there's a nuclear leak, it will be Putin's fault. 🤣
Your lack of common sense and understanding is dangerous.
I just hope there is a westerly wind🤣 This video is BS.
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Wait....where is the safety fears and evidence of hacks? I didn't se it in the video unless I'm blind
imagine these people are supposed to keep a nuclear power plant safe they cant even install an anti virus software or a firewall what hope is there? total BS for whats about to become massive news and it involves Ukraine and Zelensky
I heard of the hacks on an American page earlier
"widely considered the most dangerous nuclear site in Europe"
"a legacy of the UK trying to keep pace with the US and Russia"
What a load of absolute bull.
Hmm, pretty poor reporting. Expected better.
"Europe's most dangerous nuclear site" Guardian is so full of toxic radioactive waste, I can't believe a word they say.
I agree. it's one of the worst of the UK rags.
"fear mongering" I guess it is a slow news day
Guardian is Britain's worst newspaper
Lol Guardian what happened to you?
Oh look Guardian fearmongering again
3:22 Pu-239 has a half life of 24,000 years. So any significant amount of it will be radioactive even after much much longer.
So in about 100,000 years there will be still over 6% of it left.
Yep...she clearly has no understanding of half-life and the relatively low dangers of long half life isotopes. I'd quite happily hold a freshly cast block of weapons grade plutonium. However I'd be very concerned about breathing the air in a Cornish granite mine!
In the up to date sites like Hinckley Point and Sizewell C, there is far less nuclear waste than in older sites!, and when the small modular reactors (SMR) come into play, then we should be energy efficient.
Those small modular reactors don't exist, so aren't very useful.
SMRs should be a total non starter - all the overhead and security issues of a nuclear site, multiplied many more times. If we are going down the road of nuclear, we should stick to as little a number of sites as we can. Use high voltage DC lines to transport the power to other parts of the country.
If we had Gen IV breeder reactors that could burn up plutonium from Gen I-III reactors, fair enough, but Hinkley Point C is still a Gen III reactor that will generate marginally less nuclear waste than previous designs, but not much.
@@sanfrancrisko9962 DC lines? Enlighten me….
With nuclear waste the quantity is irrelevant
@@sanfrancrisko9962To correct your idea high voltage DC is not an efficient method of transmission of energy. The high school model of little balls called electrons flowing down a wire like a pipe isn't how it works. AC is more efficient for many reasons.
The sky is falling! the sky is falling! Again.
Nothing new or especially interested. B30 for example is one of the most active parts of the site. They make it look like it's just being left to rot and nobody is doing anything about it.
Most of the waste is from the early magnox program, the current PWR reactors generate a far smaller volume of waste. Plutonium has a long half-life, so what? So do radioactive materials that are abundant in the earth's crust, and it's estimated that about half of the heat generated within the earth's core is due to reactive decay. This heat keeps the iron core molten and sustains the magnetosphere which deflects solar radiation and keeps us alive. Anyway, I thought global warming due to CO2 emissions was the critical global emergency?
There are certainly many worrying issues at Sellafield, but this "report" is total nonsense.
It was 1986 year. You are an amateurs that looking for topic in nuclear area. Or I misunderstood in dates.
"Widely considered to be...…" by The Guardian, no less! So it must be true- Help!
They have struggled to contain leaks since the eighties
Stuff with a very long half life of decay sounds scary but is actually relatively safe. It's the stuff with short half lives you want to be scared of.
Depends. Plutonium is fine to be close to, but is extremely nasty if it gets inside you (in the lungs or through a cut on the skin). The Alpha radiation it gives off buggers up any cells it is close to very badly.
Sort of, Iodine-129 is the longest living fission products and it can pose a problem during reprocessing. All the short-lived elements are long gone by the time they reach Sellafield.
But you're right, by far the greatest hazard is active reactors.
One thing to note these are built far away from london.
I believe we should build one in the center of london to provides the citys power eith the newer smaller nuclear power generation available they are much Safer cheaper smaller and will provide better sustainable power to our grid that had had little investment since tories sold off all of our essential utilites so we no longer have to rely upon zfrench stste own EDF that is making a fortune out of the UK 54% profits and more whilst capping its profit within france to 4% to keep bills lower UK government hsve failed to buikd infrastructure for nearly 5 decades now successive goverments
EDF (UK) are in billions of debt.
@@aking610but they are owned by French government, actually state owned!
Extremely poor journalism from Guardian as usual , no new material or evidence just some annonymous sources about a cyber attack and decade old articles being brought up....keep it up Guardian ...no wonder you are failing
Off the continent
This is old news
The cooling ponds were leaking 30 years ago & still are....
I especially loved the cloud of waste projected over Norway 4:52. A cursory glance at any weather system over the UK will show you that such a spread would be impossible. Strange that the two nations that worry about selafield, Norway and Ireland, are also anti-nuclear states!
Actually a nuclear explosion the magnitude of a power station going boom could cause a superheated pocket of rapidly rising air which could alter weather patterns locally. Look into the US HAARP weather control arrays that exist & DO work as designed.
Ireland aren't anti-nuclear. They are honest in their assessment that they couldn't run large nuclear facilities. But to be clear, despite no risk of a meltdown, there is still the possiblity of nuclear material becoming airborne from Sellafield and weather systems spreading that material.
Someone wants to check out the cancer rates & birth defects & infant deaths in the area. I have said that for years especially in the 70s & early 80s 😢
So safe they had to change its name from Windscale in order that over the years people would “forget” the negative associations with it.
@@brutonstreettailor4570 Given its primary purpose shifted from the production of atomic weapons to reprocessing commercial nuclear fuel, it sort of makes sense.
I imagine the nuclear-phobic government may be a reason as to why upgrading the facility is difficult. Not much can be done about adversarial actors besides better cybersecurity so that isnt really "their" fault.
And I imagine drawing unnecessary attention to the Site (from potential hackers) will not be doing anyone any favours anyway. I'm fairly confident most plant control systems have their own internal networks that are not connected to the internet. The claims are completely spurious and found on little evidence.
@@Kylem6875 Im not sure about uk systems but us sites its kinda mandatory
Comparing this to Chernobyl is an unfair comparison. Do better research. Nuclear waste is pretty harmless when left on its own
You got it wrong about how long Plutonium remains radioactive, 24,000 years is the half life, that means it will be only half as radioactive after this time. If less CO2 is desirable nuclear energy will have to be part of the solution so these issues will have to be resolved.
Meanwhile under the falling cost the whole world is going solar with new and more efficient clean solar power... which has surpassed nuclear. Solar Installed capacity (GW) 400+ Energy production (TWh) 2,950. Atomic power (GW) 390 (TWh) 2,660... Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), "Global Renewables Outlook 2023"
Lazy journalism 😢
What a nice advertisement against nuclear power, hit all the usual nonsense scare points, Shell and BP def got their monies worth :P
"The burden of nuclear waste is here for countless generations to come"... Yeah well, you use a voluntarily scary way to name things while not actually describing the burden. The burden is literally investing a few pounds per citizen in waste management in exchange for almost free & almost unlimited ENERGY. The benefits far exceed the costs.
"Almost free" that was what they promised us in the 50s. It has never been the case, not even close. All those various grades of waste, the containment facilities, the security, it all costs rather a lot of money. They're about 20 years into a 100 year programme of decommissioning the site and they still don't have solutions for some of the problems.
Just blame Russia as usual😅
You do know that the longer a half life, the less dangerous the radioactivity?
Thanks . That you tell the true news . King . Yours . Teacher . Poor man . 9999.
Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from the Graun and most other major outlets currently. Manipulative and just `wrong` on so many things.
Let us put solar panels on the roofs of all social housing & factories. Let us use the newer, more effective form of wind turbines, which have cylindrical drums that turn horizontally instead of the 'flower on a stick' style old ones. Let each town that has a river have water power turbines.
Sorry but the CO2 footprint of the technologies you cited is enourmous, also it just woul not produce enough energy and we'll need more. please find scientific information about what you are talking about. It's all free.
Must be some way to keep warm instead of incompetent companies and government planning. If Gov actually want people comfortable the should talk peace and should look at leveling up technical skill to deal with nuclear power instead of of half-hearted abandonment - no wonder there's problems...
Shocking journalism too but that's no surprise these days ...
Scaremongering at its best. Reporting bs like this should have consequences!
The only similarity it ever had with Chernobyl was the Windscale fire back when it was being used as a weapons manufacturing reactor.
That's what the Windscale reactor was for, which is why WE ARE FREE!
If anything the Guardian has reported about the Ukrainian conflict is anything to go by. Sellafield must be the safest nuclear plant in the world plant
OMG! Only The Guardian feminists can save us. Listen to the scary music and look at the camera angles and lighting. They must have spend so much time on the graphics and images. Who needs to talk to scientists or engineers who can bring actual facts and data? The 10 minutes spent on Wikipedia and hours upon hours of searching through old newspaper articles and TV footage is what counts. We don't need references. Your word is enough.
Looks like the Guardian is sponsored by big coal
The scaremongers always place nuclear power plants in the same catergory as nuclear weapons. They are very different things and unrelated.
i live near Dounreay...they made an awful mess here too
So do I mate, it's really rather overstated as an issue tbh. Nuclear fearmongering is insane for some reason
I spoke to someone working on the clean up and it's a forever '5 year' project which would see him to retirement. So they aren't being honest about the costs.
@@andyhodchild8 long delayed indeed, but that's not the same as dangerous or "an awful mess"
i don't think honest is a word they know very well@@andyhodchild8
I live near Dungeness, and see its silhouette clearly whenever I go to Hythe or Folkestone. I'm quite chuffed that pylons lead from there to my area, and that the electricity I use produces zero CO2.
The Guardian doing what it does best BS
The anti nuclear power movement (as distinct from the anti nuclear weapons movement) would never have gotten off the ground if it wasn't for astroturfing by big oil, who had vested interest obviously in making sure that nuclear power never became the dominant form of power generation.
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And renewables, which Big Oil Loves because it means we still have to burn fossil fuel.