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	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Sellafield
		Sellafield also has a host of other plants, including two reprocessing plants - one to reprocess the waste from the old so-called Magnox nuclear power stations and one, Thorp, to reprocess spent fuel from the newer privatised plants at home and abroad.
		Sellafield reprocesses that - it dissolves the plutonium and uranium in nitric acid which itself produces a whole lot of liquid waste - more than it can get rid of.
		In the 1970s Sellafield had an accident in a plutonium handling compartment and enough of the metal was spilt in a lump to start a nuclear reaction.
	www.guardian.co.uk /theissues/article/0,6512,184655,00.html (734 words)

	WISE Women special: THE SELLAFIELD STORY
		Ever since then Sellafield has declared itself "cleared", claims that radioactivity from Sellafield is not to blame and, by turning speculation into science, favors an as yet unidentified virus and the effects of population mixing as the cause.
		Still Sellafield keeps asking for increases in their annual discharges, continually adding to the contamination already there, hiding behind the fact they are "authorized" and thereby implying that they are safe.
		We are committed to halting reprocessing at Sellafield, which has placed an unacceptable burden on a community which has borne the brunt of the accumulation of overseas nuclear waste, as well as the associated risks of transports, accidents at the plant and health damage, for too long.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/509-10/5009.html (1134 words)

	British Nuclear Group - Sellafield
		Sellafield comprises more than 200 nuclear facilities - some 60% of the UK civil nuclear liability to be discharged.
		Sellafield has been pivotal to the UK nuclear industry for more than five decades with major developments and producing pioneering technologies.
		This was the catalyst for the formation of BNFL in 1971 and Sellafield's role in advancing the economic use of nuclear energy developed in parallel with the UK's nuclear energy requirements.
	www.britishnucleargroup.com /content.php?pageID=274 (542 words)

	Irish anarchists on the campaign against Sellafield nuclear plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sellafield is a great vote winner for political parties come election time.
		Auken (Danish Minister) that the closure of Sellafield's reprocessing plant was high on the Irish Political agenda, a Government spokesman said, and Mr.
		Yet stopping the opening of the MOX plant in Sellafield had been "High" on the Irish Political agenda for the last two years and the politicians utterly failed to stop that plant opening.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/a_news/an27sellafield.html (934 words)

	SELLAFIELD SAMPLING CAMPAIGN 1998
		It was revealed today that a serious leak of radioactive waste in the Sellafield plutonium reprocessing plant THORP threatens the future operation of the facility.
		Greenpeace releases a report that argues that radioactive Sellafield pigeons may indicate widespread and unexamined contamination of the general public and the environment.
		The environmental organisatition had the contaminated Sellafield pigeons analysed at a French laboratory and further analysis is being carried out in Germany and Belgium.
	archive.greenpeace.org /nuclear/reprocess/sellsampl.html (491 words)

	Sellafield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sellafield is the name of a nuclear site, close to the village and railway station of Seascale, operated by the British Nuclear Group, but owned since 1 April 2005 by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
		Sellafield is located on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
		Sellafield has been a matter of some consternation in Ireland, with the Irish Government and some members of the population concerned at the risk that such a facility may pose to the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sellafield (3262 words)

	Sellafield: The fight continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The report also maps out the new challenges the Sellafield plant is faces for the future: Even if the Tc-99 discharges end as a result of the new cleansing method, there remains the massive job of cleaning up the plant site.
		Sellafield has always been a central part of the British nuclear programme, and as of today there are over 80 tonnes of pure plutonium stored on the facilities grounds.
		Andrew Mayall, Sellafield Team Coordinator at the British Environmental Agency, spoke on the Environmental Agency's regulation of Tc-99 at Sellafield and presented an update on the TPP trial.
	bellona.org /english_import_area/energy/nuclear/sellafield/32551 (597 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 23 \| 1984: Sellafield 'not linked' to cancer cluster
		Sellafield has had a controversial history ever since it was opened in 1956 as Windscale.
		The most controversial was published in 1990 by Professor Martin Gardner, and found that fathers who worked at Sellafield passed on an increased risk of leukaemia to their children.
		The Sellafield nuclear complex was closed and handed over for decommissioning in April 2005.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/23/newsid_4521000/4521673.stm (634 words)

	SELLAFIELD AS HEAVILY CONTAMINATED WITH RADIOACTIVITY AS CHERNOBYL
		This is the conclusion emerging from the analyses of soil samples from both are as commissioned by Greenpeace to the University of Bremen (1).
		A comparison with radioactive pollution in the area around the UK reprocessing plant at Sellafield leads to the alarming conclusion that some of the figures for radioactivity at Sellafield are even higher than those for the Chernobyl area.
		In soil sampled seven miles away from the Sellafield plant, pollution from this isotope is as much as 30,000 becquerels per kilogram.
	archive.greenpeace.org /pressreleases/nucreprocess/1998oct9.html (587 words)

	CNN.com - N-fuel begins Sellafield journey - September 17, 2002
		SELLAFIELD, England -- A shipment of radioactive waste rejected by Japan and transported 18,000 miles by sea has begun the final leg of its marathon journey to a British nuclear plant.
		Security was tight on Tuesday as five tonnes of plutonium mixed oxide fuel (MOX) was lifted on to a train at the port of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, north east England.
		The train will take the fuel to the Sellafield nuclear plant where the 100-tonne armoured casks will be stored in a specially designed facility and the fuel will eventually be recycled.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/09/17/britain.sellafield (382 words)

	edie news centre - Improve accounting for nuclear material, Sellafield told
		Sellafield was not transmitting all the required information in time, and had not reported on technical changes made to the plant," a spokesman for the European Commission told edie.
		BNG Sellafield said it has still not received formal notification from the European Commission, and declined further comment.
		Sellafield is the world's largest nuclear facilities in the world, and the site of the world's first commercial scale nuclear power station, opened in 1956.
	www.edie.net /news/news_story.asp?id=11087 (436 words)

	Valentinesday at Sellafield - Indymedia Ireland
		Eyewitnessreport with Pictures of the protest at Sellafield where almost 200 people gathered to show their opposition to the MOX plant and the contamination of the Irish Sea.
		The protesters aimed at highlightening their opposition to the proposed MOX plant at Sellafield as well as the huge levels of radioactive waste that are being pumped into the Irish Sea every day.
		yes there was a very good atmosphere at the sellafield demo, protesters didnt seek to antagonise the cops...but that didnt stop them breaking the hand of one of the people in the lock on when the order came to shift it off the road.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?id=430 (1969 words)

	Children of Plutonium -- High Cancer Rate in Offspring of Sellafield Fathers
		The Sellafield plant is one of the principal sources of plutonium bound for Japan in numerous shipments planned over the next few decades.
		Gardner and his colleagues concluded that the increased incidence of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma among children in the vicinity of Sellafield is correlated with paternal employment at the plant.
		Based on his review of 65 studies of the incidence of cancer near nuclear facilities in various countries, he concluded that the weight of the evidence is consistent with an increase in leukemia risk associated with proximity to or probability of exposure from nuclear facilities.
	www.nonukes.org /w15cancr.htm (1474 words)

	Yorkshire CND - CONTAMINATION AROUND SELLAFIELD - 2/11/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The area around the Sellafield reprocessing plant is as heavily contaminated with radioactivity as the zone around the stricken Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine.
		A comparison with radioactive pollution in the area around the UK reprocessing plant at Sellafield has led to the alarming conclusion that some of the figures for radioactivity at Sellafield are even higher than those for the Chernobyl area.
		People living by the reprocessing plant in Sellafield are today filing a suit against the Federal Export Office in Eschborn, which authorizes nuclear exports abroad in the name of the federal government.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /news/articles/sella.htm (370 words)

	Sellafield Security Review over Air Attack
		Sellafield, with its huge plutonium stockpile and its storage of high-level liquid waste in tanks, is seen to be most vulnerable.
		Ironically, Sellafield this week dropped its security status from Amber to Black Special, next to the lowest of the four categories, on the Home Secretary's advice.
		The MP said he worried about "outrageous anti-nuclear scaremongering." There was no evidence, he said, that Sellafield was on a terrorist hit list or that nuclear plants were under any more or less threat than chemical installations and oil refineries.
	www.state.nv.us /nucwaste/news2001/nn11462.htm (686 words)

	International court rejects Ireland's claim over Sellafield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In October Dublin took landmark legal action against Britain at the arbitration court in The Hague under the 1992 Oslo/Paris Conventionfor the protection of the marine environment of the Northeast Atlantic.
		The Permanent Court of Arbitration is an independent governmental organisation created in 1899 by the The Hague Convention to rule in disputes between states or states and private persons.
		Ireland's concerns relate to pollution caused by the discharge of radioactive waste from the MOX (mixed plutonium and uranium oxide) treatment plant at Sellafield.
	www.terradaily.com /2003/030702173712.fiz89v1d.html (257 words)

	shut sellafield
		It has come has a shock about-turn to the nuclear workforce who were told BNG would be sold as one and they would all be transferred to one new employer under contract from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
		The re-opening of the THORP nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield is causing concern.
		The Nordic environment ministers have demanded that any resumption of reprocessing at THORP be preceded by an evaluation of all the risks as well as an action plan for the treatment and ultimate disposal of radioactive waste.
	www.shutsellafield.com (1116 words)

	Nuclear plant closed after radioactive flood - earth - 09 May 2005 - New Scientist
		Nigel Monckton, a spokesman for the British Nuclear Group, which runs Sellafield on behalf of the UK’s nascent Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), says the leak was discovered after a camera-based inspection.
		The processing area viewed, called a clarification cell, revealed where missing liquor from another part of the process was pooling.
		Monckton says the cell was designed to withstand the possibility of a leak and, because stainless steel does not dissolve in nitric acid, the leak has been contained.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/earth/dn7359 (597 words)

	Sellafield = Springfield? \| Greenpeace International
		Sellafield, United Kingdom — A massive leak in a nuclear facility lies unnoticed for 9 months until someone goes looking for an awful lot of missing radioactive material.
		If the plant remains closed for a long period it could be the final nail in the coffin for the troubled THORP plant.
		While workers at the plant are being blamed for their negligence, it is the management of Sellafield, and the UK government who support its continued operation who are the guilty parties.
	www.greenpeace.org /international/news/sellafield-springfield (896 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| 'Missing' plutonium is just clerical error, says Sellafield
		British Nuclear Fuels, which runs the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria, claimed yesterday that no nuclear material had gone missing from the site, despite an industry audit that revealed almost 30kg of radioactive plutonium were unaccounted for.
		In its annual audit for 2004 of nuclear facilities published yesterday, the UK Atomic Energy Authority said 29.6kg of plutonium at Sellafield was "material unaccounted for".
		Several tonnes of plutonium are recovered from spent nuclear fuel rods at Sellafield each year, and the 29.6kg unaccounted for in the audit represents about 0.1% of the site's annual throughput.
	www.guardian.co.uk /nuclear/article/0,2763,1417411,00.html (487 words)

	RTE News - Iceland disappointed by the time Britain is taking to reduce emissions
		Iceland says that it is disappointed by the length of time it's taking Britain to reduce radioactive emissions from the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria.
		For years, Ireland and Scandinavian countries have complained that the waste pipeline from Sellafield causes radioactive contamination that can be traced in shellfish, although only at low levels, in their own waters.
		Concerns have been heightened by last week's revelations that documentation regarding safety procedures at the plant had been falsified and yesterdays decision by a German based plant to shut down, so that fuel rods supplied by BNFL could be removed.
	www.rte.ie /news/2000/0225/sellafield.html (283 words)

	Sellafield
		La questione di Sellafield era nell’ordine del giorno dell’incontro di pochi giorni fa tra Blair e Ahern, occupato poi in gran parte dal processo di pace; ma Blair non aveva molto da offrire riguardo a questo argomento.
		Soltanto poche settimane orsono ben sei reattori nucleari, compresi quattro a Sellafield, erano stati sigillati a causa del cattivo funzionamento dell’impianto di Chapel Cross, sulla costa scozzese e in linea d’aria a 60 chilometri da Belfast; ma l’incidente non era bastato a far desistere Londra.
		Con ignoranza, incoscienza e totale mancanza di rispetto non solo per gli irlandesi ma anche verso i loro stessi cittadini, i governanti britannici procedono per la loro strada e si preparano ad approvare in parlamento la costruzione di un altro impianto nucleare nuovo di zecca.
	www.irlandanews.org /sc10.htm (1204 words)

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