On 24.01.2013 12:36, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article , Mike Tomlinson
writes:

Talk about ****ting in your own backyard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21119774

Not sure why this is particularly newsworthy now - it's been known
for decades there's loads of nuclear junk there. Also in some of the
former USSR countries which have no money to deal with the legacy
they've been left with.

There are a thousand or so abandoned/lost/stolen thermal decay
reacters which were used to power lighthouses. Theives often cut them
up with angle griders for the scrap metal, and die a few days later.
Even the authorities have dropped several in failed salvage
attempts, only to watch them melt their way into the ice and
dissappear from sight.
http://bellona.no/bellona.org/englis...ncidents/31772

Bellona is not a good source if you want to learn about radiation
and its hazards. All fish are less radioactive than you.

The only problem with nuclear waste in the Sea is the blackmail from the
environmentalists. Bellona makes a lot of money from it.
Frederic Hauge met at the yearly conference for the fishing industry in
Norway and told in very direct words that unless you hire me as a
consultant I will tell that your fish is radioactive. Thus he became a
consultant and today he is very rich.
--
jo
"When you measure what you are speaking about and express
it in numbers, you know something about it, but when you
cannot express it in numbers your knowledge about is of
a meagre and unsatisfactory kind."
--William Thomson (Lord Kelvin).