On 23/03/13 09:06, Bob H wrote:
On 23/03/2013 08:31, harry wrote:
Note that things have just got worse since this one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

Gordon Bennet, that's right old news that.


Indeed I remember it. The first time I had heard the words 'strontium 90'

And guess what. No one died of cancer.

Of course no one runs an atomic pile in an open hearth with zero
containment and not much shielding, any more.



Where have you been for the last 50 odd years

FYI, the one of the Pile chimneys is no longer in existence, and the
other is on its way down.

leave em long enough and then you just bulldoze them.


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