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Sellafield Clean Up.

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Sellafield is having a big clean up. It is called Britain's most dangerous building. It has 10,000 m3 of radioactive sludge. The sludge is being put into big backed bean tins and covered in Polyfilla. A robotic arm is being used to handle the sludge. But a comforting thought perhaps is that Hanford in the U.S.A. has 20 times the amount of high level nuclear waste as Sellafield. (or perhaps not so comforting after all).

Source: Not the Daily Mail.

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  • Maybe what we should be asking is why hasn't anyone researched a way to  stop radioactivity from being produced I'm thinking something that could stop the reactions stone dead thereby rendering all the waist nasties harmless. Maybe it isn't possible but surely if you can start a reaction you can stop it. I did wonder if dissolving it in acid mite work

  • in reply to Kelly Marie Angel

    You can start and stop a chain reaction, but the emission of particles is a natural phenomenon.

    Let's not forget that the nuclear programme was set up to make weapons and not primarily electricity. The generation of "free" electricity was a smokescreen.

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  • in reply to Kelly Marie Angel

    You can start and stop a chain reaction, but the emission of particles is a natural phenomenon.

    Let's not forget that the nuclear programme was set up to make weapons and not primarily electricity. The generation of "free" electricity was a smokescreen.

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