Sellafield: Europe's most radioactively contaminated site

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 7 окт 2015
  • Sellafield, the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, reveals major development in a scheme to clear up radioactive waste at the controversial site in Cumbria.
    Subscribe for more like this, every day: bit.ly/1epe41j
    Dangerous world: bit.ly/1JCsSYb
    The news explained: bit.ly/1epgay4
    Music: bit.ly/1RVTRNy
    Technology: bit.ly/1LI1K9y
    Like us on Facebook: on. 1wQ1Gty
    Follow us on Twitter: bit.ly/1mFUjBD

Комментарии • 817

  • @tezlloyd
    @tezlloyd 5 лет назад +1051

    I've just found out that the chippy in Sellafield has closed down.
    What a shame, they used to serve a lovely leg of cod there...

  • @owenstockwood5040
    @owenstockwood5040 5 лет назад +529

    Chanel 4 News: Sellafield is Europe's most radioactively contaminated site.
    Chernobyl: Am I a joke to you?

    • @jakefarronmerlin7963
      @jakefarronmerlin7963 5 лет назад +9

      Also only a 5% meltdown.

    • @jontytodd-stewart3908
      @jontytodd-stewart3908 5 лет назад +40

      @@owlman4167 okay Jesus mad respect but not really, sure its not as contaminated as it used to be but there are places in Russia 200km away where levels are just as high as the middle of the exclusion zone due to rain 2 days after the incident, inside the reactor is still very radioactive and if one were to live in the exclusion zone and indeed those within 200kn receive dangerously high long term doses, there are many hot spots and contaminated objects as well as location that were not cleaned, so yes residential areas and roads are "okay" but forests and soil is very bad as well as the level of ionized particles which was very high until the new arch was fitted, so it is still very contaminated and would be more so had it not been for the sacrificial cleanup efforts

    • @aabra6265
      @aabra6265 5 лет назад +13

      They said in the news article that it's multiple times more radioactive than Chernobyl

    • @jakefarronmerlin7963
      @jakefarronmerlin7963 5 лет назад +6

      @@aabra6265 because of the differences in the fuel used at chernobyl and the stuff being stored at sellafield.

    • @owenstockwood5040
      @owenstockwood5040 5 лет назад +6

      @Fred Yes it is.

  • @fiddley
    @fiddley 5 лет назад +190

    £54Billion? Not great, not terrible.

    • @hansgruber788
      @hansgruber788 5 лет назад +24

      you're in shock comrade

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 5 лет назад +3

      I heard £50 billion is spent on corrosion prevention in the UK every year so £54 billion for an entire project doesn't seem like much in that perspective.

    • @georgebritten8208
      @georgebritten8208 5 лет назад +15

      GET THIS MAN TO THE INFIRMARY! HES DELUSIONAL

    • @2stroketimebomb
      @2stroketimebomb 3 года назад

      £16Billion more than the UK deffence budget, I'd say that's a fair bit!

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 3 года назад +2

      @Phil Weatherley the project is almost complete, they are ready to start retrieving the waste. Only thing holding it back is the plant where it is going to be stored, due to Covod 19 there has been some delays.

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 5 лет назад +336

    Typical of Britain's mainstream media : it's all about money.
    Maybe, in this case, doing a proper job is more important?

    • @koolyman
      @koolyman 5 лет назад +25

      If they wanted to do a proper job of it, they would've designed Sellafield better on creation. But because of cost cutting at the beginning, it's made doing a proper job of it even more hazardous and costly today.

    • @ge2719
      @ge2719 5 лет назад +2

      @@koolyman exactly, so having the media be like "look how expensive this is!!!!" trying to drum up ghate for nuclear because of these epenses. all it could ever lead to is peopl ein future calling for less money inot nuclear and thus more cost cutting that leads to this sort of problem, or worse.

    • @koolyman
      @koolyman 5 лет назад +5

      @@ge2719 However it does show that perhaps the overall extraordinary cost of nuclear power is not worth it; and that we should rely far more sustainable, renewable sources... That is until the boffins develop fusion, but that is currently quite distant.

    • @ge2719
      @ge2719 5 лет назад +8

      @@koolyman the cost decreasws the more tech we develop just lioe all tech. To stop using a source of energy this abundant and powerfull because we didnt use it properly in the past woiod be silly logic. by the logic we would have stopped uaing petrolium all togethwr after we found out leaded petrol was bad. We wouod have gotten rid of fridges when we found out cfls were making a hole in he ozone. we will never develop cleaner and cheaper methods of nuclear power if we stop investing in nuclear energy.
      We can invest in both.

    • @bradcrowbar6867
      @bradcrowbar6867 5 лет назад +2

      Because money is never a factor in these situations, right? Just vote for the proper green candidate who can simply 'will' a solution into existence, yes?

  • @Tuppoo94
    @Tuppoo94 3 года назад +46

    When you're cheap and don't cough up the money needed to process nuclear waste right from the beginning, you'll just end up with an even more expensive and dangerous mess later.

    • @simonphoenix3789
      @simonphoenix3789 3 года назад +1

      Tuppoo94 Processing nuclear waste is often dangerous and not economical considering how much cheaper it is to just buy more fuel. This is a problem of old storage techniques that aren't used anymore(at least not in the west). Nowadays it is stored in movable concrete capsules that are monitored constantly and can be moved and buried or further encased if any danger of leakage exists.

    • @985476246845
      @985476246845 2 года назад +1

      @@simonphoenix3789 not right, after reprocessing the storage is simplified, and the time required for storage is reduced. Yeah its an expense. but its worth it when you consider the results.

    • @timetochange724
      @timetochange724 Год назад

      Nuclear Waste has been dumped into the British Channel And radioactive pollution has been introduced into our environment and food change.

    • @douglasskaalrud6865
      @douglasskaalrud6865 7 месяцев назад +1

      Sellafield’s worst known accident was in November of 1983 when radioactive wastes escaped into the Irish sea. These wastes were produced during reprocessing. In other words, they WERE processing nuclear wastes they made.

    • @hexusmexus6971
      @hexusmexus6971 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@douglasskaalrud6865you gorgot about the billions of barrels the Irish and Brits dumped in the British channel tons and tons of it

  • @-BuddyGuy
    @-BuddyGuy 5 лет назад +190

    2:19 he needs those glasses to stop his radioactive laser beam eyes killing the interviewer

    • @StrzelnicaFX
      @StrzelnicaFX 5 лет назад +4

      No. Those are "the optimists" glasses...

    • @azzajohnson2123
      @azzajohnson2123 5 лет назад +1

      Nightmare = “challenging technical piece of work we have to do”

    • @Binitec
      @Binitec 3 года назад

      @Look behind You He really looks like he recieved an overdose of radiation and the glasses make it even worse.

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 5 лет назад +7

    And thank you mr. technician for patiently correcting aforementioned and very excitable mr. nightmare.....

  • @badmeme486
    @badmeme486 5 лет назад +28

    He basically said it's not a nightmare, it's a nightmare

    • @badmeme486
      @badmeme486 5 лет назад +1

      Fire it all into space

  • @peteranderson9881
    @peteranderson9881 Год назад +6

    I am here because of Kraftwerk's concert song "Radio-Activity" where they mentioned Sellafield. I had not heard of it before, and was curious. Thank you Kraftwerk for raising awareness of some upsetting truths.

    • @Caiddenn
      @Caiddenn Год назад +2

      It says something that Sellafield is trying to contain their waste so tightly. Natural Gas and Coal can pump it freely into the air for everyone to breathe every day. Maybe they should be subject to the same standards. Surely their bottom line wouldn't be impacted... would it?

    • @ZTYUu0Z
      @ZTYUu0Z 10 месяцев назад +1

      nothing to compare here, gas to nuclear waste it is ridiculous @@Caiddenn

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam 5 месяцев назад

      The original 1975 version of "Radio-Activity" didn't have the nuclear disaster sites' names in the lyrics, they added them for the 1991 remixed & rearranged version of the song, along with "Harrisburg", "Chernobyl", "Hiroshima" (recently swapped for "Fukushima").

  • @tomstickland
    @tomstickland 5 лет назад +37

    Sellafield aka Windscale dates originally from a time when no one gave a damn about nuclear safety and they just dumped things down old mine shafts or in the sea. There's supposed to be some tanks containing things dumped there that have no records of what they are.

    • @tommorris3688
      @tommorris3688 5 лет назад +3

      Dumping things down old mine shafts is exactly what the recent proposal for new coal mines in Cumbria is all about; when the mines are exhausted, with shafts deep under the Irish Sea, the exhausted mines will be back-filled with nuclear waste.

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler 5 лет назад +3

      You're spewing nonsense and lies. You can't just dump high level radioactive waste into the sea. You can't hide something like that. Someone somewhere would detect it.
      The only attempts was made with throwing it into subduction zones of the tectonic plates, but that's stupid. That waste isn't a waste. It's precious material for the future industry.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland 5 лет назад +6

      @J S they dumped metal barrels into the sea until 1992 when it was banned. There's an extensive video about it on here. Some of the barrels rusted away, some are still intact.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland 5 лет назад +1

      @J S we might have stopped in the 80s but the international agreement was in 1992. Pipeline discharges from Sellafield and La Hague are still permitted though there are 2020 and 2030 targets for a reduction.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland 5 лет назад +2

      @J S sea discharges involve releasing low level waste directly into the sea. Sea dumping involves dumping barrels into the sea. They both involve disposing of waste into the sea. I'm saying that the end of barrel dumping was not the end of dumping waste into the sea.

  • @privatear2001
    @privatear2001 6 лет назад +102

    "Sellafield is planning on abandoning that contract... they say they've now found a simpler quicker way to clean up the mess" - hahaha I was almost expecting him to say "Ah, we're gonna dump it in the ocean"... but he didn't. :)

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity 5 лет назад +3

      CraigDCrocodile They never come straight out and say things. Besides, he could reason, if it's good enough for Fukushima, it's good enough for us.

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity 5 лет назад +1

      Superpureeliteful I always thought the Baltic Sea was even worse. I have read that Sellafield is partially to blame for that. Sweden is mostly to blame. People eat the fish caught in the Baltic Sea as if they don't know about it. I don't eat those fish or any fish from the Pacific. Probably the Atlantic is very radioactive too. No one is going to tell us otherwise.

    • @Mira_linn
      @Mira_linn 5 лет назад +4

      @@Bevity I'm quite sure it is not Sweden nor Finland to blame for the radioactivity in the Baltic but the ussr and Poland. However that is not why you shouldn't eat fish from the Baltic sea that is mercury and other heavy metals that partly is there naturally and partly becourse the ussr didn't understand that the ocean don't just make things disappear however most ppl in the west thought the same up till the 70's

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity 5 лет назад +3

      Kenneth Hermann I guess my point is... not exactly who is the biggest radioactive polluter of the Baltic Sea, but that there are SO MANY sources. I know about the mercury, dioxins, PCBs, etc. too. It is a small body of water that only has about 1% water exchange with other bodies of water, so all of this pollution just keeps building up. I went to Poland and ordered fish at a restaurant, forgetting where the fish came from. It was so good, and enormous portions. I remembered after, but it was only the once. Don't eat fish from the Baltic Sea!

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity 5 лет назад

      J S Oh, well then. Everything is great. No problem at all then. Eat as many fish as you can. Pig out.

  • @SnubFocuss
    @SnubFocuss 5 лет назад +10

    Hello from Ireland. Thanks for giving us radioactive beaches and waterways on the east coast of the country. We appreciate your trash so much. Many thanks

    • @krashd
      @krashd 9 месяцев назад

      Has the radiation killed as many people as the bombs you gave us?

    • @jamesfisher4309
      @jamesfisher4309 7 месяцев назад

      Sorry on behalf of the majority here who never agreed to it and are getting the same problems down our west coast. Good old tories are after a new round of nuclear reactors despite not clearing up the mess from the first lot!

  • @1autocadman
    @1autocadman 3 года назад +3

    you can slag Sellafield off all you want but that won't deal with the issue and money should be no object!
    we need to get this done properly safely and correctly no matter how much it costs we owe it to ourselves our children and Europe and the rest of the world to

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 3 года назад

      FINALLY, Someone who understands why it needs to be done. A lot of people in these comments who don't understand the potential severity of the situation. Let's leave it and let it collapse, save our 54b and contaminate the Northern hemisphere.

  • @fairysox221
    @fairysox221 5 лет назад +5

    The 11% nuclear levy on electricity bills has not been put aside for dealing with decommissioning costs and waste, but spent on building more nuclear power stations like Sizewell B. Economists estimate that the income from the levy between 1990-98 alone was over £9bn. The industry was privatised and the taxpayer robbed for over 50 billion pounds...

    • @secreteman205
      @secreteman205 3 месяца назад

      This statement give made is Fact 👍

  • @stellathefella
    @stellathefella 5 лет назад +51

    i can count on one hand the amount of times i have been to the visitors centre.. its 7

    • @tonyduncan9852
      @tonyduncan9852 5 лет назад

      Haha.

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 5 лет назад

      steve culley ahh, you live close by then.
      Does they water leave that refreshing tingle / burning sensation?

    • @tonyduncan9852
      @tonyduncan9852 5 лет назад +4

      @@riverdeep399 Background radiation is STILL radiation. You are being irradiated right now. You'll probably survive it, because your body repairs radiation damage (mostly - read the small print).
      The world is less radioactive now than it has ever been. If you understood what radiation was, you'd already know this. Life evolved under much heavier radioactivity.
      The Irish Sea is fucking cold to swim in, and definitely makes one tingle.

    • @stellathefella
      @stellathefella 5 лет назад

      @@riverdeep399 how did you come to that conclusion from a joke? guess much or just make it up? blithering idiot

    • @ToyotatechDK
      @ToyotatechDK 3 года назад

      Epic 👍🏼

  • @hasher2265
    @hasher2265 5 лет назад +16

    Heated uranium and hydrogen leaking 😂 I think sellafield is lucky the damn thing hasn't blown up.

    • @ashleygoggs5679
      @ashleygoggs5679 5 лет назад +2

      or we just know how to properly manage radioactive material.

    • @schweinerschinkler4332
      @schweinerschinkler4332 5 лет назад +2

      Ashley Goggs yeah just dump it into the Irish Sea.

  • @pemo2676
    @pemo2676 4 года назад +3

    Ah yes, the ol' way of removing a lid from radioactive waste... Poke it with a stick

  • @p-ocust1924
    @p-ocust1924 7 лет назад +43

    "No leak before several years" from guy with a sweating red ionizing face

  • @vulcangbr6064
    @vulcangbr6064 7 лет назад +165

    Was he wearing rose tinted glasses? I was always told not to trust those people...

    • @Diablo-ls7fj
      @Diablo-ls7fj 6 лет назад +10

      Vulcan GBR agreed! His teeth were gross too!

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 5 лет назад +15

      @Bunker Sieben they are known to help people with dyslexia.

    • @erwinderdoofe
      @erwinderdoofe 5 лет назад

      I'm no expert, but i know that the eyes are a good spot for radiation to enter your body deeply. I guess he wants to avoid that...

    • @anikidwolfy
      @anikidwolfy 5 лет назад

      Dude is so rolling in money.

    • @baruchben-david4196
      @baruchben-david4196 5 лет назад +1

      I'm looking at the world through rose colored glasses
      And everything is rosy now.

  • @EVAN-fy9kh
    @EVAN-fy9kh 5 лет назад +13

    I live in a small town near here called Whitehaven, and my Granda works here. Best paying job in Cumbria I think.

    • @puporossi4888
      @puporossi4888 5 лет назад +1

      how many Sievert are in the place you live ?

    • @smitbar11
      @smitbar11 5 лет назад

      Other than tenant farming, Sellafield must be the next biggest employer in Cumbria...................and much better paid than farming

    • @Spamsational
      @Spamsational 5 лет назад

      @@smitbar11 oh yeah, without Sellafield the entire county would shrivel up and die.

    • @shape-shiftingcatandhermin2508
      @shape-shiftingcatandhermin2508 5 лет назад

      @@puporossi4888 dunno but I heard the readybrek man is from round here 😸

  • @dnickaroo3574
    @dnickaroo3574 5 лет назад +23

    It shocked me that Nuclear Waste consumes 95.8% of the Budget for Energy and Climate Change.

    • @mrrolandlawrence
      @mrrolandlawrence 5 лет назад +6

      odd they dont really invest cash into research that might substantially reduce the amount of waste. odd because since the 1950s quite a lot of progress has been made in nuclear science. just look at france for instance. 90%+ nuclear and renewable. cleanest air in europe. trust the brits to hamfist the whole process. solid fuel nuclear reactors need to be made a thing of the past with improved technology.

    • @captainpocky
      @captainpocky 5 лет назад +4

      It's because it's weapons waste, not standard commercial waste :/
      In commercial waste, the radioactive stuff is kept trapped within the fuel & the cladding. So it's really not too hard to deal with.
      But if you want to get to the juicy weapons plutonium that's also stuck in the fuel, you have to dissolve the cladding/fuel. Which of course releases the trapped radioactive elements and liquifies already nasty stuff, making it much harder to clean up. This is bad enough when they do a "good" job, let alone the absolute messes they made with early weapons programs.
      (For an example of what I'm talking about, compare commercial "dry casks" to the barrels of liquid weapons waste at Hanford, WA)

  • @B1ssetplaysbass
    @B1ssetplaysbass 5 лет назад

    1:36 the noises in the background are really nice

  • @markarca6360
    @markarca6360 5 лет назад

    I have seen it first on NDA's video on how Sweden deals with radioactive waste.

  • @conorgeraghty4178
    @conorgeraghty4178 5 лет назад +3

    Winscale had a nuclear disaster in the 60s when the plant caugh fire spread radioactive material around cumbria and Ireland ranked 5 out of 7 in nuclear disaster scale Britain government covered it up until the 80s. Perently 2 times higher then the bombs on japan.

  • @essex2zz
    @essex2zz 7 лет назад +29

    Look up a video from the 80's called "Britain's nuclear laundry" shows how bad the place really is and what it does.

    • @TheSkippyboy
      @TheSkippyboy 5 лет назад

      yabadoo completely agree with you, if radiation was so dangerous, all airline pilots, and all people on the ISS should end up far worse than they do. They experience far more radiation than someone working at the sellafield plant would on a daily basis.

    • @honved1
      @honved1 5 лет назад +1

      @@TheSkippyboy Radiation is incredibly dangerous, but that doesn't mean that sellafield isn't safe.

  • @nevermind824
    @nevermind824 5 лет назад +2

    The reason it's a mess, is that they rushed atomic weapons in the 50s without any thought of how to clean it all up in later years.

    • @streaky81
      @streaky81 5 лет назад +2

      This is a widely acknowledged fact. Completely indisputable. The guys involved in the weapons program would probably happily confirm that too,

  • @martindevans
    @martindevans 5 лет назад +7

    I really just wanted to shout "sunk cost fallacy" at the presenter of the video every time he asked a question >_

  • @blackwolf1066
    @blackwolf1066 6 лет назад +28

    Local seaweed long the river Wyre was found to be 1000 times the normal safe level of radation.

    • @theobreakspear3068
      @theobreakspear3068 5 лет назад +1

      Any idiot with a Geiger counter can see it’s perfectly safe there. This man is delusional take him to the infirmary!

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed 4 года назад +1

      Don't eat the seaweed....problem solved.

  • @tehf00n
    @tehf00n Год назад +1

    I love how the cleanup is sponsored by a Limited Company :D

  • @ndmz903
    @ndmz903 5 лет назад +27

    Building a new storage building for the other storage building

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 3 года назад +1

      yes! that's science!!
      now all they have to do is to push on the next two generation so they find a solution

  • @bradcrowbar6867
    @bradcrowbar6867 5 лет назад +2

    They did improve their "all clear' metronome 'bing bong' noise. Much less annoying.

    • @dh1380
      @dh1380 3 года назад

      It almost sounds nice

  • @hene193
    @hene193 6 лет назад +2

    Costs are what they are. First time is always the most expensive one. To figure out how to do everything is always going to cost money.

  • @marcusreynolds3686
    @marcusreynolds3686 5 лет назад +28

    I spent a week there during work experience and got lots of amazing tours from a guy pretty high up and all I can legally say is that one of the storage sites is so fucked that it is literally a ticking time bomb

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 5 лет назад +3

      Marcus Reynolds Great. :/ and still they want more nuke plants.
      It ain't to help with the energy crisis, that's for sure.
      What god awful weapon are they constructing now...

    • @DSQueenie
      @DSQueenie 2 года назад

      I know people who work there. It’s not great but not in that way.

    • @marcusreynolds3686
      @marcusreynolds3686 2 года назад

      @@DSQueenie not a bomb but more a disaster waiting to happen in terms of nuclear waste leaking into the environment

  • @urbansnipe
    @urbansnipe 8 лет назад +27

    "intolerable risk" 1:33 i feel uncomfortable living on the same island as this place

    • @edwardtupper6374
      @edwardtupper6374 8 лет назад +6

      I feel uncomfortable living on the same planet 😭

    • @th_2k162
      @th_2k162 7 лет назад +2

      I feel bad living in the same county as this place😖😖

    • @tippintray
      @tippintray 7 лет назад +10

      intolerable is an industry term, its not "intolerable" in the human sense/definition of the term. it means that it needs to be replaced/repaired as soon as possible it doesnt mean that it is an immediate danger

    • @jamiebrannonfrizocean3314
      @jamiebrannonfrizocean3314 6 лет назад

      I live within 10 miles of this place!

    • @danielstark8258
      @danielstark8258 6 лет назад

      Frizocean331 cool?

  • @nick000002
    @nick000002 5 лет назад +10

    You did not see a leaking silo because it is not there
    The building is not great, not terrible its equilvent to a chest x ray
    This man is delusional, take him to the infirmary

    • @ElderScrollsGamer
      @ElderScrollsGamer 5 лет назад +3

      Nick002 Im told the situation at Sellafield is completely under control, theyre are reports of only 3.6 roentgens

    • @theobreakspear3068
      @theobreakspear3068 5 лет назад

      Actually it costs the tax-payer the same as about 40 X-rays, HS2 is more like 400 chest x-rays, and those Chinese building Hinckley point C are getting 4 million chest x-rays!

  • @doggonemess1
    @doggonemess1 5 лет назад +9

    1:26 What the heck was that shadow? It looked like some kind of weird STALKER event.

  • @stephenmccarthy4732
    @stephenmccarthy4732 5 лет назад +1

    It's more important to be safe and clean than about the money

    • @xiamaramu1538
      @xiamaramu1538 2 года назад

      it started when it was called Windscale. They classed filters in the chimney as a folly but it helped when they cut fins on the uranium shuttles to speed up plutonium harvesting. It caused the reactor to catch fire and those filters saved a lot of pollution. Now they want a deep storage at Theddlethorpe for high level waste, knowing funds are tight we fear the worst here.

  • @tomlindelow7984
    @tomlindelow7984 5 лет назад +5

    Hanford makes this look like childs play.

    • @tomlindelow7984
      @tomlindelow7984 5 лет назад

      @Amed Tajan yes they have a tour of one of the reactors and a museum.

  • @ghostqueen2082
    @ghostqueen2082 5 лет назад +3

    what could possibly go wrong???

  • @mikestein1024
    @mikestein1024 5 лет назад +12

    Electricity so cheap you won't even get a bill they said then after spending billions to clean it they say solar and wind are too expensive

    • @shootermcgavin4559
      @shootermcgavin4559 5 лет назад

      Renewable is less expensive and dangerous. Just facts

    • @roadrage9191
      @roadrage9191 5 лет назад

      Solar and wind energy is a joke.
      Only coal or nuclear is an existing solution today. Maybe within 10 years nuclear fusion.
      That is the reality

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 5 лет назад

      @@shootermcgavin4559 but doesn't generate what industry even needs to produce the materiels to make them.

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 3 года назад

      This had nothing to do with electricity. It was the result of the weapons program during the cold War. Past generations were careless with producing the plutonium, so current generations are tasked with cleaning it up. You think 54 billion is a lot, let's just abandon it, see what happens when the most dangerous building in Europe collapses.

  • @ryanirvine50
    @ryanirvine50 5 лет назад +4

    5:10 the death star has landed!

  • @Runtothefire
    @Runtothefire 3 года назад

    The job should be to get it done as safely as you can!

  • @beingatliberty
    @beingatliberty 6 лет назад +44

    Solar, Wind, Tidal and Dams surely have a massive place when the long term costs of nuclear are taken into account, Good luck to the good people at sellafield who are clearing stuff up, but surely we worked out that nuclear overall isn't worth it when the hidden extended costs involved are taken into account? maybe fusion can come along but we need a cleaner source of energy.

    • @thomashambly3718
      @thomashambly3718 6 лет назад +13

      beingatliberty nuclear power creates 0 greenhouse gasses

    • @uber1337hakz
      @uber1337hakz 5 лет назад +17

      @@thomashambly3718 Except from the massive amounts of GHGs from the cement used to make the power plant, the diesel burnt to mine the uranium, the cement used for waste storage etc. etc. it adds up, it is not zero.

    • @thomashambly3718
      @thomashambly3718 5 лет назад +7

      @@uber1337hakz I said nuclear power, not power stations

    • @user-py9cy1sy9u
      @user-py9cy1sy9u 5 лет назад +4

      By nuclear you mean light water reactors and not gen 4 molten salt reactors?

    • @markosmond6430
      @markosmond6430 5 лет назад +7

      @@uber1337hakz How about the cost and damage to the earth to find the rare metals needed for solar panels? They move mountains to find indium, neodymium and others rare metals.

  • @NekoWinters
    @NekoWinters Год назад +1

    Call it what it is, windscale

  • @daenyboy8685
    @daenyboy8685 5 лет назад +9

    In terms of radiation, the plant director reports no more than 3.6 roentgen. I‘m told its the equivalent of a chest x-ray.
    So if you are overdue for a check up you can go there

    • @Johnlee-ej7yx
      @Johnlee-ej7yx 5 лет назад +1

      Not great, not terrible😀

    • @me124
      @me124 2 года назад

      But nobody gets a best X-ray everyday.

  • @davidmyers4056
    @davidmyers4056 Год назад

    Legacy off the worst nuclear accident until chernodyll. This is the waste left over from the accident. Famous last words. Dont worry it safe, we have learnt from our last failures.

  • @lyrimetacurl0
    @lyrimetacurl0 5 лет назад +2

    4:30 Pfft, corrosion prevention costs 50 billion *every year* in the UK.
    I always use that value as a rule of thumb.

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 3 года назад

      so... 2billions euro to get the job done, 48b for greasing that fat bureaucratic British machine
      yup! it's all there, no mistakes...
      it would've cost 3billions to get it done thank god with the bureaucracy in place we saved 1b..
      it's about how much senses there is to it....

  • @stephenhope7319
    @stephenhope7319 3 года назад

    Adrian Simper at 2:27 viewing the world thru rose tinted glasses, classic.

  • @tommorris3688
    @tommorris3688 3 года назад

    Looking after the 140 tonnes stockpile of Plutonium at Sellafield is presently costing the UK Government £73 million per year.

  • @DenisJByrne
    @DenisJByrne 5 лет назад

    Never saw so many people smiling about what burying an unsolvable problem.

  • @mjmayo970
    @mjmayo970 3 года назад +13

    Along the south east coast of Ireland theirs an unusually high rate of birth defects, children born with cancers ect. It's a hot spot for cancer in Ireland actually. I recall an effort by the Irish public back in the 90s to highlight the dangers of sellafield which involved flooding government ministers offices with pictures of deformed children. Polliticians looked the other way of course.

    • @paul.alarner6410
      @paul.alarner6410 2 года назад +1

      and they still will.

    • @paul.alarner6410
      @paul.alarner6410 2 года назад +1

      it all makes perfect sense when looked at in pounds shillings and pence.

    • @jimmyormerod4075
      @jimmyormerod4075 Год назад

      no radiation was released for gods sake radiation came over the uk in the 80s beacuse of chernoble

  • @watkinscopicat
    @watkinscopicat 5 лет назад +11

    how many solar panels can you get for 54 billion? 🤔

    • @jaredgarbo3679
      @jaredgarbo3679 4 года назад

      Not much.

    • @fly89
      @fly89 4 года назад

      solar panel doesn’t help much when it is only panel 😎

    • @SIXITHS
      @SIXITHS 4 года назад

      Irrelevent, since this a legacy site of the UK nuclear weapons programme, and needs to be cleaned up properly whatever the financial cost.

  • @trevk9619
    @trevk9619 2 года назад

    Notice all these sites are well away from London,the politicians are safe.

  • @__Wanderer
    @__Wanderer 5 лет назад +1

    54 billion and they are chipping away at a lid with a metal rod? Wtf looks like total sh*t.

  • @hansgruber788
    @hansgruber788 5 лет назад +5

    3.6 roentgen. not great, not terrible

  • @misstreebird
    @misstreebird 8 лет назад +2

    reveals a major scheme in development

  • @MatthewSuffidy
    @MatthewSuffidy 5 лет назад +15

    Not very profitable, unless it covers their weapons program as well.

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 5 лет назад +1

      Matthew Suffidy that's why it was built.
      Must also be the only reason they are bothering with it.
      You're right.
      Revival.

    • @ramonverhoeven3758
      @ramonverhoeven3758 5 лет назад

      The earnings are made and saved, as the tax payer will pay for solving the problems.

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 3 года назад

      as well indeed

  • @johnprentice2546
    @johnprentice2546 5 лет назад +1

    Let's just spend a few million pounds thinking about a plan to spend more money and try to pull more money for this problem that just won't go away.

  • @taragragg400
    @taragragg400 5 лет назад

    When I listen to this so do my neighbors. Oh. There are none.

  • @rixille
    @rixille 5 лет назад +7

    If thorium reactors become a thing, that would make storage problems a thing of the past, or as I understand.

    • @markae0
      @markae0 5 месяцев назад

      Wrong. Thorium reactors produce uranium 232 which is highly radioactive, so much so that humans can not handle it as in get anywhere near it. Only with remote control and video can you manipulate U232.

  • @rare6499
    @rare6499 5 лет назад +4

    Disastrous. We shouldn’t be using a technology which creates waste that’s dangerous for millions of years that we have no idea how to store...!

  • @MyUnoriginalUsername
    @MyUnoriginalUsername 7 лет назад +14

    0:45 radioactive pigeons

    • @Showsni
      @Showsni 7 лет назад

      Those are very clearly Jackdaws...

  • @renlentlesstourist7574
    @renlentlesstourist7574 5 лет назад +1

    "storage"

  • @mjbarctic4513
    @mjbarctic4513 8 лет назад +9

    My dad works here

    • @jnszy
      @jnszy 7 лет назад

      same

    • @essex2zz
      @essex2zz 7 лет назад +29

      How many fingers you got?

    • @djacob9800
      @djacob9800 5 лет назад

      Is he the old geezer chipping away at the containment lid while his nuts are in the way?

  • @user-jh2xp2sk3z
    @user-jh2xp2sk3z 8 месяцев назад

    Sellafield, Europe's most radioactively contaminated site..... UHHMMMM CHERNOBYL ENTERS THE ROOM!

  • @Hrafn84
    @Hrafn84 5 лет назад +1

    Why don’t you Brits get all those doctors and engineers that have been flooding into your country to work on the problem?

  • @abtechgroup
    @abtechgroup Год назад

    Notice the guy who said its not a nightmare but merely challenging is wearing rose coloured glasses.......

  • @1magnit
    @1magnit 4 года назад

    multiple myeloma? The stats from the lake district are a bit higher than from the rest of theworld. Check it out?

  • @craknuckle4862
    @craknuckle4862 5 лет назад

    4:58 I see 1 man working though he may was well be asleep and 3 others watching.

  • @quas392
    @quas392 7 лет назад +2

    needs more LEAD

    • @H0kram
      @H0kram 5 лет назад

      @Bunker Sieben Yes, putted shortly lead is the stable form of Uranium.
      And that's why it is so good at stopping radiation, beta and gamma rays in particular : it remains very dense, and full of electrons.

  • @jmaybarnett
    @jmaybarnett 2 года назад

    Europes most radioactively contaminated site? are we pretending Chernobyl doesn’t exist now or something?

  • @sunspotst7697
    @sunspotst7697 6 лет назад +7

    Its easy to create a mess but very difficult to clean up😆

  • @willlawton2143
    @willlawton2143 Год назад

    My guy said ermmmmmm I don’t think it’s a nightmare 🤣😁😣😖😖

  • @acm_1985
    @acm_1985 6 лет назад +6

    This is scary - i think they have no idea how to handle all this deadly nuclear waste.

    • @MrSimonw58
      @MrSimonw58 5 лет назад +3

      Judging by the old man using a crowbar on the lid on the nuclear waste container at 5:02 I think your right

    • @tommorris3688
      @tommorris3688 5 лет назад +1

      Latest idea is to stick the waste into exhausted coal mines; building coal mines close to Sellafield site has just been approved for "coking coal" for steel production.

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed 4 года назад +1

      @@tommorris3688 By the time it becomes a real health hazard on a day to day basis you and anyone yet to be born will all be dead from old age so never mind the cost enjoy the "free" energy production while they are still allowed to do it. BTW, did you know that low level radiation over a prolonged period is the cheapest form of birth control and you don't have to take any pills to achieve 100% success? it's Nature's answer to the over population problem and also biodiversity.

  • @avocedo975
    @avocedo975 5 лет назад

    4:10 wow so damn cool

  • @afgor1088
    @afgor1088 3 года назад +1

    people blame nuclear power for sellafield but almost all the high grade nuclear waste is from nuclear weapons. ditch trident, keep nuclear power it's clean, safe (the safest of any power generation) and it doesn't spew toxic waste into the environment like lithium batteries, solar panel manufacture or coal

    • @danem2215
      @danem2215 3 года назад

      Site with buildings and pools of radioactive waste requiring a 100 year cleanup = good. Solar panels = bad.
      You're just as ignorant as people who think coal and oil are cleaner than solar.

    • @afgor1088
      @afgor1088 3 года назад

      @@danem2215 when did I say solar bad? All I did was try to point out that people like you who think that nuclear forms "pools" (seriously 😂 sad) and who think there's no waste or deaths from solar are pathetic children who don't care about the planet and only about their own egos

  • @peterpanbigdick.
    @peterpanbigdick. 2 года назад

    What happened to stripping the wast of meatals with acid then using electric problems to extract the pollution?

  • @Draalo
    @Draalo 5 лет назад

    "I can asure of that"

  • @callumhardy5098
    @callumhardy5098 5 лет назад +4

    Nuclear costs far more than it will ever make, ridiculous.

  • @edsr164
    @edsr164 5 лет назад

    Seriously? That’s the UK and the guys are worried about the costs? Not safety nor the expediency with which decommissioning is done?

  • @jellydee123
    @jellydee123 5 лет назад +2

    Well at least an enemy knows wheres to sink a nuke.

    • @ashleygoggs5679
      @ashleygoggs5679 5 лет назад +2

      if they sank a nuke there they would potentially harm themselves. When the 1 reactor melted down in chernobyl the whole world detected radiation after a few days. Imagine what would happen if a nuke spewed thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the atmosphere. It would be like a slow burning mutually assured destruction .

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 5 лет назад

      I doubt a nuclear bomb on top of nuclear waste dump would make any difference to the damage caused.

    • @ashleygoggs5679
      @ashleygoggs5679 5 лет назад

      @@snowflakemelter1172 it would kick it up into the atmosphere. Bombs are notorious for spreading radiation so dropping one on waste would likely enhance the amount of radiation being spread.

  • @KielanGaming
    @KielanGaming 5 лет назад +3

    The leak from the old containment building is about 3.6 Roentgen per hour, not great but not horrifying. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray.

  • @jj-iu3ni
    @jj-iu3ni 5 лет назад

    Just wrap it in lead. Job done

  • @paulsingh9043
    @paulsingh9043 3 года назад +1

    Send it to Finland , ounkula will have it!

  • @PETE4955
    @PETE4955 3 года назад

    Personnel bullied for raising health and safety concerns ???? We need to find out the management who behaved in this manor, instenous dismissals followed by prosicution.

  • @Marauder1981
    @Marauder1981 5 лет назад +1

    No problem, till things turn bad we are all dead anyway.

  • @me124
    @me124 2 года назад

    This is why nuclear power shouldn’t be used. The building is falling apart.
    Try putting money into the nhs and finding good dr’s in the AnE departments at Penrith and Carlise and consultants along with Birbeck medical group.
    All about money again and people who try to convince us they have this under control.

  • @johncharley9791
    @johncharley9791 11 месяцев назад

    Milking government funds knowing they have authority over a barrel and can dictate costs, this then secures massive profits. They will probably get the job done but not until the maximum amount of money has been extorted from the taxpayer. Another example of not being able to control costs and the contractor will never admit that they, the contractor don't really care. It's always about profit.

  • @westietech6275
    @westietech6275 9 месяцев назад

    A drop in the ocean compared to the cost of HS2

  • @regnadkcin6702
    @regnadkcin6702 Год назад +2

    The newsreader sounds on the edge of panic, and trying to convince others to panic. This is the usual response given by someone, whose only knowledge of radiation , comes from watching a episode or two of HBO's Chernobyl.

  • @paulmatthews2922
    @paulmatthews2922 3 месяца назад

    Europe's biggest money pit, bigger than even the BBC

  • @bademoxy
    @bademoxy 4 года назад

    all this panic about radiation, yet nobody compares all the deaths from fossil fuels .

    • @jellyfrosh9102
      @jellyfrosh9102 3 года назад +1

      Probably because the damage from fossil fuels is significantly less dangerous and significantly easier to clean up. Coal dust doesn’t have a life of several centuries, nuclear waste does.

    • @danem2215
      @danem2215 3 года назад

      Everyone does. But when a coal plant stops, that's it. It's over. It doesn't require a century long, $100b cleanup and if it fails, it doesn't require the surrounding land be forever uninhabitable thanks to long lasting radioisotopes. This shithole site dumped radioactive waste into the Sea then threw it in buildings, and crumbling ponds for storage.

  • @Wickett01
    @Wickett01 3 года назад +1

    Found this from Kraftwerk.

  • @jaymorpheus11
    @jaymorpheus11 4 года назад +1

    Maybe aliens are in control of the gov there

  • @watkinscopicat
    @watkinscopicat 5 лет назад +6

    there are 450 operational nuclear power plants worldwide. and they still haven’t figured out what to do with the radioactive waste.

  • @geoffreylee5199
    @geoffreylee5199 2 года назад

    We left before the explosion.

  • @pushpushlambert8079
    @pushpushlambert8079 6 лет назад +10

    Free energy ... They said ...

    • @josh256m8
      @josh256m8 5 лет назад

      Toopy Anne Binoo better than coal. They just did it “wrong” in this case

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 5 лет назад

      The FBI Ummm... No?
      It was never _for_ public consumption.
      It was to build weapons of *"Mass destruction"* ... to impress the US.

    • @mindoza44
      @mindoza44 5 лет назад

      @Epic erm actually i think he knows plenty !

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed 4 года назад

      @@mindoza44 As far as the bomb was concerned, anything the Yanks did the Brits had to do as well…..well not so well, but they got there in the end.....now to get out.

  • @fredhatfield5863
    @fredhatfield5863 2 года назад

    Electricity will be so cheap it will not need to be metered .

  • @elr8691
    @elr8691 5 лет назад +1

    Super deadly nuclear waste directly below my feet? Better poke at the lid with a stick!
    I think they have no idea about how to treat it, and those cost estimates are insane.

    • @amandacary6812
      @amandacary6812 5 лет назад

      Are you joking right ? Oh look lets use machines that might create sparks ..... and we all go boom.

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed 4 года назад

      @@amandacary6812 As the actress said to the Bishop....if you've never done it before, just poke it like you would with a stick.

    • @ExoVyper
      @ExoVyper 4 года назад

      its waste stored in water so theres no real threat unless you touch the water

  • @jaquimcompadre
    @jaquimcompadre 6 лет назад +3

    What country is Sellafield in?