#windscale — Public Fediverse posts

#BBC:
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Next stage for nuclear and clean energy site
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".. next to Europe's largest nuclear plant is taking a step forward"

"Sellafield's decommissioning started in 2005 .. site stores one of the largest stockpile of nuclear waste."

"A project to bring a new nuclear power station at Moorside collapsed ~ 10 years ago after Toshiba .. pulled out."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge8vv959ejo

10.3.2026

#Atomkraft #BEC #Cumbria #England #GreatBritain #Kernenergie #NDA #NPP #PioneerPark #Sellafield #Windscale #UK

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan - https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/07/mps_find_127_million_wasted_sellafield/ "Don't worry, only 100 more years of Sellafield nuclear site cleansing to go" what a fiasco #sellafield #windscale

TheGuardian:
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.. cost of cleaning up Sellafield is expected to spiral to £136bn and Europe’s biggest nuclear waste dump cannot show how it offers taxpayers value for money ..
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/sellafield-cleanup-cost-136bn-national-audit-office

23.10.2024

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #GreatBritain #Großbritannien #Kernenergie #NAO #NDA #NuclearWaste #reprocessing #Sellafield #UK #Wiederaufarbeitung #Wiederaufbereitung #Windscale

Next should be crimes against humanity and the future:

"Sellafield pleads guilty to criminal charges over cybersecurity failings"

#Sellafield #Windscale #nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste #ColdWar

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/sellafield-pleads-guilty-to-criminal-charges-over-cybersecurity-failings

"The Irish Times is given rare access to the most dangerous nuclear facility in western Europe" - yet there are still people touting nuke as a solution for Ireland #Nuclear #Toxic #Sellafield #Windscale https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/03/30/inside-sellafield-behind-the-razor-wire-gun-toting-guards-and-blast-barriers-at-the-toxic-nuclear-site/

#Sellafield #NuclearWaste dump to be prosecuted for alleged #ITsecurity offences

Charges relate to four-year period between 2019 and early 2023, and follows Guardian investigation

Sellafield, which has more than 11,000 staff, was placed into a form of “special measures” for consistent failings on #cybersecurity in 2022, according to sources at the #ONR and the #SecurityServices.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/28/sellafield-nuclear-waste-dump-to-be-prosecuted-for-alleged-it-security-offences
#Windscale

Learn about the unprecedentedly powerful #hurricanes caused by #climatechange and the advocacy for a new #Category6 on the #SaffirSimpson #Windscale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hOlaRygT2c&feature=youtu.be

Spending watchdog launches investigation into #Sellafield

#NationalAuditOffice to examine risks and costs at #NuclearWaste site in #Cumbria
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/spending-watchdog-launches-investigation-into-sellafield
#Windscale #ToryPoliciesInAction #NuclearPower #NAO

“Earthquake causes No catastrophic damage to #nuclear power plants.”

We have to be told this because last time .. Fukushima.

Those promoting Nuclear as Clean, Reliable, & Economic want us to forget the #Windscale reactor fire back in 1957 is still being decommissioned.

Just managing, guarding, monitoring, maintaining derelict Nuclear sites costs billions each year. There is a daily consumer tax on energy users to pay the estimated £260 billion cost of decommissioning for the next 100 years.

Windscale/Sellafield is a toxic dump in more ways than one https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/06/sellafield-toxic-culture-bullying-harassment-safety #Windscale #Sellafield #Toxic

#TheGuardian: "Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public"

".. worsening leak from a huge silo of rad. waste ..
.. cracks in a reservoir of toxic sludge known as B30 ..
.. leak of rad. liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” .. Magnox swarf storage Silo (MSSS) – is likely to continue to 2050 .."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public

5.12.2023

#Atomkraft #Atommüll #England #GreatBritain #Kernenergie #Magnox #MSSS #ONR #Sellafield #UK #Wiederaufbereitung #Windscale

"Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of radioactive waste that could pose a risk to the public...

The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site – is likely to continue to 2050."

#nuclear #NuclearPower #Sellafield #Windscale #Cumbria #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public

“Things can only get bette…”
#Sellafield #Windscale #NuclearNeighbour #FallOut #WhenTheWindBlows #RadiationVibe #Mastodaoine #UKpolitics #UKpol
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china

Why are we continuing to refer to #Windscale as #Sellafield ?

Revealed: #Sellafield #nuclear site has #leak that could pose #RiskToPublic

Safety concerns at #Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with #US, #Norway and #Ireland

‘Dirty 30’ and its toxic siblings: the most dangerous parts of the Sellafield site
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/05/sellafield-nuclear-site-leak-could-pose-risk-to-public
#Windscale

@NoelWauchope

http://corecumbria.co.uk/alternative-tour-of-sellafield/irish-sea/

http://corecumbria.co.uk/site-history/

#IrishSea #Cumbria #Sellafield #Windscale
#nuclear #Radioactivity

#Sellafield #nuclear site #hacked by groups linked to #Russia and #China

Exclusive: #Malware may still be present and potential effects have been #CoveredUp by staff, investigation reveals

‘Bottomless pit of hell, money and despair’ at Europe’s most #toxic nuclear site
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/04/sellafield-nuclear-site-hacked-groups-russia-china
#Windscale

#WindScale

"Divers in Sellafield nuclear pool for first time in 65 years"

"The nuclear power plant in Cumbria went out of use in the 1960s, and the pool was built in the 1940s for use by Windscale Piles, the site's first nuclear reactors, for the cooling, storage and de-canning of spent fuel as part of the UK's post-war atomic weapons programme. According to records, it was last entered back in 1958 to repair a broken winch, and now divers are back in the water with the rather unpleasant task of clearing sludge."

@histodons #nuclear #NuclearWaste #Sellafield #Windscale #ColdWar #divers

https://www.scubadivermag.com/divers-in-sellafield-nuclear-pool-for-first-time-in-65-years/

Appalled by comments to this excellent article by George Monbiot, still defending #NuclearEnergy as a solution. As if nobody had learned anything from the calamitous decisions of the past that are still ruining our present:

1. the uncontrollable 'accidents' -- #LongIsland, #Windscale, #Chernobyl, #Fukushima

2. the everlasting #radiation

3. the immense cost of #decommissioning and 'cleanup'

4. and the INSOLUBLE problem of #NuclearWaste.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/09/us-world-climate-collapse-nations

#NuclearPower inescapably generates large quantities of #hazardous human-made waste, the worst of which will remain hazardous probably beyond Homo sapiens’ time on the planet.

Nuclear radiation less dangerous than emissions from a wood-burning stove?? Wood-burning stoves are pollutants, no question, but they could NEVER lead to a #Windscale, #ThreeMileIsland, #Chernobyl or #Fukushima. Nor will decommissioning them cost #billions and take #decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/enve-honesty-on-nuong-legacy-of-hazardous-waste

Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site (long read, 30 mins)

Excellent piece from The Guardian on making safe what is left behind when a nuclear site is shut down (one I live 45 miles from) – an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site

#science #nuclear #energy #environment #industry #sellafield #windscale #radiation #radioactive #waste #government #planning

For many of us, the renaming of #Windscale after the toxic fire/pollution (and many safety problems) to try to obliterate #memory of the impact remains a huge stain on Britain; and on its ethical position with regard to harm, health, and the #environment. “Dismantling #Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a #nuclear site”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Spent nuclear fuel is the most substantive product of human civilization. It will be in our descendants' world long after our cities, languages and gods are forgotten.

"Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site"

"Nothing is produced at #Sellafield anymore. But making safe what is left behind is an almost unimaginably expensive and complex task that requires us to think not on a human timescale, but a planetary one"

@nuclearhumanities @sts #Windscale #nuclear #coldwar #EnvHist #nuclear #UK #Cumbria

Guardian Long Read: https://shrtm.nu/MOAp

#ONR: "Fire safety improvements required at #Sellafield"

".. at the First-Generation #Magnox Storage Pond facility (#FGMSP)."

"“The enforcement notice requires Sellafield Ltd to either replace or repair the fire alarm and detection system in the FGMSP facility..”"

Also: #Brandmeldeanlage an alterndem Brennelemente-Lagerbecken dysfunktional.

#Atomkraft #Kernenergie #Großbritannien #UK #Windscale