Greenpeace investigates nuclear waste at Sellafield, 1994

In 1994, Greenpeace snuck in to the radioactive waste repository at Drigg, near the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria.

The poorly packaged junk and high radiation levels are disturbing enough; set aside the revelation that LLWR - the current management company - are missing records of what was dumped in there, it becomes really scary.

Read the full story at http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/nuclear/waste-company-says-whoops-some-our-...

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[Dakotajohnboy]

ahhh greenpeace, Gotta love how they BREAK INTO THE AREA! Love doing illegal stuff to get there message across. They hate coal power plants, too messy. Nuclear is to dangerous. Hydro electric disturbes wildlife. Hmmmm that leaves wind and solar. Solar and wind dont produce near the amount of energy as any one of them on a 1:1 scale.

[GreenpeaceUK]

And wave power, biomass and geothermal where appropriate. The best immediate solution to our energy needs is to stop wasting it - centralised coal/nuclear power stations operate at less that 40% efficiency, which is not only insanely wasteful but massively expensive. Power comanies don't care because they don't foot the bill, consumers do.

CHP plants are over 85% energy efficient. These, plus renewables combined with energy conservation measures can supply our current and future energy needs.

[trainyjack]

scary



[yomamasapeach]

I'm going to say this, Wind: has been shown to cause problems to underground animals. Also, it has disturbed families and doesn't produce much, Solar works in a small margin and needs to be applied more, but we are at the mercy of the day and at night, you can't produce. Geothermal is really hard but we can do it eventually and tidal can't be used everywhere. Hydro made safe and nuclear plants like the one Bill gates is producing can help. Maybe even the power of anti matter if we could harness

[Sarusource]

@BSurecan 2 And you may think that 10,000 is shocking. It is but we have to see it in perspective. It doesn't mean that 10,000 have already died. It means that 10,000 people are at risk of developing non-terminal cancer over the course of there life times.

Compare this to the 1,000,000 + who die each year from air polution alone.

Chernobyl was the USSR and it had a full scale melt down. The Daichi incident is certainly not on this scale.

[Sarusource]

@BSurecan 1 It is hard to understand the figure that you have written. Do you mean 500 or 500,000 fatalities. There is a big difference. What are your sources?

The UN (I have no reason to doubt the accuracy), has said that there 'may' be up to 10,000 cases of thyroid cancer. At the moment the number of deaths is well below a thousand. This is from a 2005 press release for a UN report put together by over a hundred scientists. I can give you the links to the reports if you like.

[BSurecan]

@Sarusource 25 years after Chernobyl

it is proven that a lot of people, mainly children

have died of Thyroid cancer, others died of heart disease (radiation weakening the muscles)

a lot died of many other forms of cancer.

It has never been confirmed by the Russian government, but

the figures say at least 500.000, some say even up to a million dead untill now.

At the moment it is accepted that the Fukushima meltdowns have caused

a lot more contamination than the Chernobyl one.

[Sarusource]

@BSurecan How do you expect your hypothetical deaths to manifest themselves? What will the cause of the deaths be?

[BSurecan]

@Sarusource

Not our of proportion actually!

The Tsunami did his work in a few minutes

Fukushima Daiichi wil do it in a few hundred years.



[dazzlerby]

nuclear power is the way forward, it's either that or cover the world in solar panels when the coal, oil & gas prices go through the roof.