DIGGING BIG HOLES IN THE GROUND

Use No 7.

Digging big holes to dump high level waste in.

No country has got as far as putting the high level waste in yet....

Dr Helen Wallace who wrote the scientific review "Rock Solid" has said:

"This waste is extremely radioactive and very hot so it's going to significantly change the water flow deep underground; the corrosion of materials and the repository will release large quantities of gas which have to escape somehow. The waste will remain dangerous for many generations."

Storing waste above ground must be the "least bad option" because corrosion and leaking could be prevented. Government wants it out of sight so it can push ahead with insane new build and produce yet more waste.

Rock Solid - a scientific review by Dr Helen Wallace

http://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/press-centre/reports/rock-solid-a-scientific-review

CASTLES IN THE AIR - RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES IN THE SAND

Use No 6.

CASTLES IN THE AIR - RADIOACTIVE PARTICLES IN THE SAND

Each tide that washes into the coasts of Cumbria brings radioactive particles.

The latest "discovery" of measurable "alpha-rich" particles was found on the beach near Workington on December 12, 2010, the local authority was only told this month.

The Environment Agency monitor a small part of the Cumbrian coast from Silecroft to Solway - so far they have "detected and removed more than 1,200 radioactive items."

Allerdale Council Agenda 2nd March 2011

Radioactive Particles hidden under "Other" on page 19

http://webapps.allerdale.gov.uk/moderngov/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=3011&T=10

How many more radioactive particles can humanity take?

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT..

Use No 5.

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT - STRAIGHTENING THE RIVER CALDER

The river Calder is an important Cumbrian habitat for river wildlife. Creatures that make their way to the Irish Sea from the river Calder and Ehen include brown trout which become sea trout and eels which make an incredible journey to the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda. Their journey takes them through ancient landscapes, the river meanders in serpentine loops all the way until it reaches Sellafield. What a shock the animals have, here the river Calder has been straightened so that radioactive discharges and run off released into the river can pass through the 6 mile nuclear plant as quickly as possible.

"the Calder was originally a meandering river through the middle of the site"

http://www.sellafieldsites.com/land/pages/site_setting.html

Turning H20 to H30 -Radioactive Water

Use No 4.

TURNING H20 to H30 Radioactive Water

Sellafield reprocessing discharges around 8 million litres of radioactive liquids into the Irish Sea every day. Much of this is radioactive hydrogen also known as tritium. Official figures are often given excluding tritium - but it is far from harmless!

Tritium is radioactive water or water vapour - the water itself is radioactive - not something dissolved in the water. It is not considered an external hazard - but should you inhale, ingest or even absorb tritium through the skin it is very harmful. Health effects of tritium are cancers and genetic mutations.

http://www.oldburynuclearviewpoint.org.uk/articles/article-21-2010-02/tritium-factsheet-for-oldbury

Tritium

The radionuclide tritium is a significant by-product of many nuclear operations, and is prominent in groundwater studies. ..

Potential sources of tritium leaked to ground from spent fuel processing include active evaporator overheads, as well as effluent treatment facilities, ponds and sludge storage tanks.

Page 41 Sellafield Sites Annual Report 2009

http://www.sellafieldsites.com/land/documents/TECH000221-Rev-2-Annual-Report-09.pdf

SUCKING THE SEA LIFE FROM THE OCEANS

Use No 3.

SUCKING THE SEA LIFE FROM THE OCEANS

New "as many as possible" reactors proposed for Sellafield would use sea water to cool the reactors. Fresh water is used to cool the wastes.

"Half the commercial catch for some regions" in the UK is destroyed by sea water abstraction.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3740173.ece

Use No 2.

HEATING THE OCEANS

Nuclear reactors use sea water for cooling, billions of gallons of seawater are heated and pumped back out to the oceans. Raised temperatures - not to mention the chemicals used to keep the pipes "clean" don't do marine species any favours...

a report commissioned by British Energy (2008) estimated that new generation reactors would need 72000 litres per second of cooling water. This is more than the average flow of the River Thames at Teddington Lock.

Cumbria Wildlife Trust

http://www.savekirksanton.org.uk/sites/default/files/document/cumbria%20wildlife%20trust%20response%20to%20ecc%20consultation%20on%20nps.pdf

Another terrible explosion in Japan this morning. The most technologically advanced nation on earth cannot pump enough seawater into the stricken and boiling reactors.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/15/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-japan

FRESH WATER NUKED

Use 1

How to use freshwater resources.

Today 4 million gallons of water were abstracted from Britain's favourite view - Wastwater- to cool nuclear wastes at Sellafield.. the same amount of freshwater used by three cumbrian towns daily. The high level nuke waste in Cumbria includes spent fuel, sent (by boat with military escorts) from Japan and reprocessed at Sellafield. Reprocessing is banned in the USA as the dirty old process makes already dangerous high level wastes even more dangerous.

Tomorrow 4 million gallons of freshwater will be used to cool the wastes at Sellafield ....

http://www.tennerfilms.com/index.php/guest-blog/94-feb-2010

Today in Japan

"The earthquake appears to be causing the greatest problems for the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, although several reactors at both sites were affected by the earthquake. Specifically , Fukushima 1-2 has lost back up power (fossil fuel ) and necessary cooling capacity (water) ".

nirsnet@nirs.org

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110312-red-alert-nuclear-meltdown-quake-damaged-japanese-plant?utm_source=redalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110312%284%29&utm_content=readmore&elq=464c899d2e6847429591aaa8baff429f