On 30 Oct, 16:24, Derek Geldard wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700 (PDT), Adam Aglionby



wrote:

Reasonably well informed about Dounreay, its toxic shaft, its liquid
waste tankers getting busted for bald tyres on public roads, the
radioactive hotspots on the shoreline and the classic JCB through the
power cables incident, through main and backup run beside each other
in the same trench.

Dounreay was fast reactor research but still generated power at some
point and crucial to learning how to clean up, the shaft is the wolds
most expensive crane grab game.

Short memories about safety at Sellafield, apart from Cockcroft`s
Follies on Calder Hall that saved Cumberland from still being
uninhabitable, what about the falsified records at the MOX plant ,
nuclear industry civil or military is not good at telling the truth.

Cheers

All in all probably right - ish.

But we don't intend to replicate that set up.

Can you tell a similar story about the largest Nuclear Site in Europe,
the French Commercial Reactors at Gravellines ?

Do you have the co-ords of *the hotspots on the coast near Dounreay
I'd like to go and check them out. How many people suffered internal
contamination from these hotspots and who were they ?

Derek

Sorry, bad term, they were commonly referred to as hotspots, but were
actually fragments of fuel rod washing up on the sho

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/409348.stm

http://www.sepa.org.uk/radioactive_s..._research.aspx

Serious enough risk that some beaches have been closed off for months
at a time.

People injured , who knows

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/vi...l-1586341.html

Dounreay`s mission is now to decommission, whatever the future of
nuclear , what`s learnt at Dounreay is extremely important in leraning
how to tempt genie back near bottle.

Problems with French installations, there have been some,do know that
the European Presurised Reactors, EPR, under construction,France and
Finland are way over budget and the other design lined up for the
U.K , Westinghouse AP1000 just hit safety design problems

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear...the_nucle.html

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co...09/09-173.html

So nuclear isn`t the non fossil plug and play option the lobby would
lead you to believe.

Still no ones answered where proposed high level waste repository is
going to be?

Cheers
Adam