Sellafield - The Nuclear Story

[LukeNAESA10]

The US suck at controlling nuclear power plants.

[RapedByVYFI]

i saw a sign in Oslo "Stop Sellafield!"

[TheTaco1995]

kraftwerk told me to come here

[SONBoomer]

I think that nuclear power is basically a temporary solution, a passage way until we advance the renewable energy collectors we now have to a point were they are indeed superior to nuclear, and naturally, far more powerful than fossil fuels.

Also, I'm quite ticked of by the Germans' apparent nucleophobia... They've completely misunderstood the lesson that should be learned from Fukushima. Japan is one place where nuclear power isn't a good idea. But it's an exception. Not the majority.

[krazyj63]

hello wat abt wind power, its clean n wind fields in california r a prime example of wind turbine power as a success, as a matter of fact im moving to a small three bedroom trailer n am about to power it using wind turbines on my roof n deep cycle battery banks all made completely by average evryday humans... not physicists, im actually the only scientist in my whole household

[modgemtb]

he said there is no other option- BOLLOKS! I've recently had solar panels installed and numerous wind farms are plopped up all over the place and they clearly work 1/2 of glasgow's energy is generated from the wind farm right outside it

[JonathonDrakeB]

I'm not sure what resources are abundant where you are. I know in Manitoba we produce immense amounts of hydroelectricity many times what we have need for and not by building dams like the Hoover. But we have many rivers. I know on the coast we use the tides "Tidal Energy" Nuclear plants obviously produce much more energy "CANDU reactors" are very efficient and safe with less abundant harmful waist. As for disposal of waist, placement where one plate subducts under a continental plate

[pugNdrum]

I am watching this becasee of top gear .

[MachinimaRecon]

CherNObyl

[atomicnortherner]

global warming is a sham to get votes and scare people to gain control. the world has always heated and cooled co2 up and down. Even recycling is a waste of time humans are messy end of! We will use our resorses, over populate then through that or major virus, die off. Religion gives false hope in the mean time and just masks the fact the all of us no matter race, sexual orientation, etc are the same. we are a dominant animal on earth that eventualy will be defeated by its own popularity

[pugNdrum]

@atomicnortherner AND .... The sun is soo hot ! we should be worring about that destroying the ozone layer than this crap !!!

[JonathonDrakeB]

@atomicnortherner Just because the world was once a molten ball of lava or a million years ago one breath of the air would cause an agonizing death doesn't mean it doesn't pose a very real threat today in reverting back to that. Yes it is a natural cycle that that has been intensified by close minded individuals.

[bluenail90]

Went on holiday last week to Cumbria . Had a walk on the beach outside Sellafield and , jokingly , picked up a few pebbles 'cos they looked different to most of the others there . Not laughing now though , old scars on the fingers of the hand I used have opened up . They're twenty five years old and it's never happened before . Coincidence ? Hope so. : (

[Jerraph]

Excellent, the music from TR! Should've been STALKER though... ;)

[3ne2gy]

ive been to Sellafield ;D when i was in school.

[bevy123]

Anyone tempted to move to this area because of the current job market....don't. Simulate for as long as you can by watching deliverance on loop, never going out and damaging your DNA with a UV lamp. Civilisation is an hour away and by civilisation I mean Carlisle or Barrow! :S

[CasFan76]

Fossil fuels "nearing exhaustion"???, the UK sits on one of the largest reserves of coal, nuclear propaganda.

[patrikasLTL]

In Lithuania here 78% of our electricity is generated by the largest nuclear power plant ever built in the soviet union 'Ignalina'. And the eurocunts are trying to close it down as fast as possible because its "dangerous". if that happens we SIMPLY wont have electricity or we will be forced to buy it from Russia which will increase our tax for electricity by 200%. world sucks, enjoy your stay.

[ap327145]

i think their building you a new one thats a lot better and way safer, or at least their planning on it, i Think

[patrikasLTL]

umm... wrong....

[HunterBHolmes]

The only reason they are concerned is for your saftey, I understand where your comming from though, unfortunatly the way westerners see it is that, the Ignalina reactor is identical to that of Chernobyl, I am sure that name is a word that makes people shudder over there, and I'm sure that the Soviets engineers learned from that horrible accident, so I say go for it. No need to shut it down. As a Canadian people find it weird that i am interested in Chernobyl but I see it as a turning point.

[patrikasLTL]

Oh, don't worry- they have already shut the powerplant down after the new year. Now we pay 50% more for electricity and buy it from Russians.

Thanks a lot 'o great EU planners.

[jonnienicholls]

I'm sure this music is from a game called total annihilation!... Ironic...

[JacobARexstraw]

THANK YOU!! Not many people realise what the Score is! Irony was exactly what I wanted to achieve. Thanks again!

[Jourei91]

If all the nuclear power would unite, we could timetravel about 300 times a hour! :D

[BlackMetalWarewolf]

heh, bring on the nukes!!!

[celticlofts]

What are we going to do in 55 years for energy? Well barring the very real likelihood that we dont all blow ourselves up in the meantime, Im sure were going to have to adjust to a new way of thinking about our World and how we live in it. Remember 55 years ago the concept of Nuclear power was in its infancy, so who knows what new technology will offer us down the road. Nuclear power in its present inception does not scare me, its the human factors associated with it that does.

[scrutex]

2491tj......Hello Marra!

[fatandim]

I work at Sellafield and consider myself a highly trained and competent operator in the nuclear indstry!

[2491tj]

even the press publicity guy cant get it right..Sellafield didnt exist in the 1940s..that was the nearby ROF ammo factory at Drigg (now a dump where they bury all sorts)..Sellafield was opened in the early 1950s..as for Sellafields workers being among the best in the world, they probably are...after the ones in the cartoon series "The Simpsons".

[2491tj]

the only reason Sellafield is "so important" today is because of all the crap it has stored underground from reprocessing other countries waste over the years..this is probably the only reason Sellafield is still open...it exists only to monitor the stored waste, if there was nothing stored there it would have closed its doors years ago.

[Reckers]

Interesting. I agree they will just close it down. no real need for it anymore. Thanks for your views.

[2491tj]

no prob..theres plenty for folks to debate about in what ive posted!!.

[2491tj]

from nuclear power..its just that Sellafield wasnt and never will be a power plant for producing "cheap" energy for the British public..Sellafield was built as a plant for the weapons industry and for reprocessing other countries nuclear waste..as to wether the British population had any real benefit from sellafield produced nuclear power is debateable...two options are open to theAmericans 1..pull it all down and rebuild as a proper nuclear energy plant.2 close it.....im betting they do 2.

[2491tj]

also it never ceases to amaze me on the amount of bull talked about security at sellafield when one can go on the Google Earth website and zoom right onto any building within the Sellafield perimiter..you can even pick out individual vehicles parked on site!!..the reality is if anything really went wrong at Sellafield no one would be able to cope..a few years ago some tree huggers chained themselves across the main road..and brought the whole place to a complete standstill .......

[2491tj]

the main road was completely blocked with traffic for about 10 miles in either direction for a complete day, and that was just with some road blocking hippies..if a major disaster happend no one would cope in reality.

[Reckers]

So what do u suggest we do? Where we going to get our energy from in 55 years time?

[laptoplarryspc]

@Reckers I won't be here then.

[laptoplarryspc]

If it goes the Muslim way it might cost you F'all 

[baileys60]

@2491tj it did go wrong at sellfield in 1957. thanks to great british men such as tom tuohy the accident was contained. this was done without all the red tape required today in nuclear power plants.

[2491tj]

.Sellafield has now been put under ownership of a private American based company, bearing in mind the Americans cant even run their own Nuclear industry, how long do you reckon it will be before the Yanks close it?..also it turns out that although it is now US owned, the British taxpayer is liable to pay any damages should there be any leaks or accidents!!!...considering that whenever there is an excersise at sellafield they dont involve the public, it cane as a shock to the local ..............

[Reckers]

Very good argument. Anyone got any arguments against this statement?

[baileys60]

@Reckers lets see how compensation is paid from bp over the oil spill. bp is no longer uk owned but carries a british title. in addition its a debate not a argument

[2491tj]

popuation a couple of months ago when fully armed BNFL Police, complete with fully auto machine guns were in a public layby diverting vehicles off the main road into the layby and then back on the main road again.

you may wonder what anti terrorist excercise they were doing?.....they were checking car tax discs with the local plod!!!!..no member of the public was informed beforehand.

[coalandnuclear]

@2491tj this shows how ignorant you are, the only problem in the usa with nuclear is funding to build new plants, keeping in mind the only reason the brits where even able to build a nuc plant was becasue the usa funded all the research and development and then let a few scientist go. good for you, you got what the usa didnt want, and thanks to that you got the windscale meltdown.

[pectoralFM]

Gott ist geil auf die Atomkraft, darum schenkte er uns die Radioaktivität! Um uns dankbar zu erweisen, für soviel Macht, kümmern wir uns darum, daß die Atome stetig gespalten werden und bauen ihm viele moderne AKWs und Brutreaktoren damit die Spaltung niemals endet!

[matt100877]

fantastic place to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reckers]

loving the arguments. Keep them coming.

[GasStation2]

uranium ore is also limited.

[TomozukiII]

Indeed it is :) But there is still plenty of it. Therefore, fast breeding reactors could solve many things, because fuel can be reused :)

[podsol99]

Subjective.

[tobyricketts]

I enjoyed that. Music from Total Annihilation - love it!

[Reckers]

Hell yeah!!! What a game!

[drontfader]

God, I thought it sounded familiar! =D

[wasywon]

real gd shots/editing

[crazyfootballer23]

Very good video, I like it. A nucleur future does seem very likely!

[Lemoncustard]

Good work guys, thats really informative