Blogposts tagged 'Reprocessing'

Leak forces Sellafield to close

Posted by bex - 13 May 2005 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
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Article tagged as: BNFL, nuclear accidents, nuclear power, reprocessing, sellafield

Activists block waste train bound for Sellafield

Posted by bex - 23 September 2003 at 8:00am - 0 Comments
Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Italian activist arrested after stopping a nuclear waste train bound for Sellafield

Article tagged as: hachette, nuclear transports, reprocessing, sellafield, waste

OSPAR and radioactive discharges from Sellafield

Publication date:  11 August, 2009

Publication date: June 2003

Summary
The UK's Environment Minister will be in Bremen, Germany, on June 25th and 26th for a meeting of the signatories to the OSPAR Convention (the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic).

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Radioactive Technetium-99 Discharges from Sellafield

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: December 2002

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear waste, reports, reprocessing, sellafield

Nuclear reprocessing, plutonium and nuclear weapons

Publication date:  9 November, 2001

Nuclear reprocessing was first carried out to separate plutonium from 'spent' nuclear reactor fuel - for nuclear weapons. All countries with plutonium-based nuclear weapons have reprocessing facilities.

Plutonium is the most highly prized material for making nuclear weapons. It has only existed in the environment since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the US in 1945, and does not occur naturally. It was in fact a US plutonium bomb that killed more than 50,000 people in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.

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Article tagged as: mox fuel, nuclear transports, nuclear weapons, plutonium, reports, reprocessing

Nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield: What is nuclear reprocessing?

Publication date:  9 November, 2001

Nuclear reprocessing involves chopping up the 'spent'nuclear fuel from a nuclear reactor, then dissolving it in nitric acid. The process was designed to separate out plutonium from the other radioactive products in waste fuel - for the production of nuclear weapons and for use in (now abandoned) fast-breeder reactors. 

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Article tagged as: nuclear power, nuclear waste, reports, reprocessing

What is OSPAR?

Publication date:  30 May, 2001

Greenpeace media briefing

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Article tagged as: oceans, OSPAR, reports, reprocessing, sellafield

BNFL at a glance

Publication date:  22 March, 2007

Where science is in a coma

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Sellafield and jobs

Publication date:  2 June, 2000

A future for West Cumbria

There is currently considerable concern amongst BNFL employees, and most people living in West Cumbria, that ending nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield would mean massive job losses and be devastating to the local area. Stopping nuclear reprocessing is nevertheless essential to protect the environment and the health of future generations, and to end the nuclear proliferation threat caused by separating nuclear weapons-usable plutonium.

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Converting existing reprocessing contracts to dry storage - a way out for BNFL

Publication date:  2 June, 2000

BNFL often claims that reprocessing must continue because contracts between them and their customers (the nuclear utilities) are legally binding. In addition, because large quantities of spent nuclear fuel have already been sent to Sellafield, and money has been paid up-front for this spent fuel to be reprocessed, it is sometimes argued that reprocessing this fuel is a commitment that cannot be broken.

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