Inside Sellafield: Cleaning up Europe's most dangerous nuclear facility | Times Reports
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2022
- Few people ever enter the storage silo at Cumbria’s nuclear facility. The Sunday Times’s David Collins goes behind the scenes to see how engineers are disposing of waste six times more radioactive than the Chernobyl explosion.
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Sellafield will never be cleaned up. That is my assessment.
Fantastic overview of some of the challenges we face and a reminder of the importance of the work we do at Sellafield
Challenges? I am sure you mean dangers and difficulties.
I was a kid at school,
living close to the site; when Sellafield went wrong the school stopped supplying the free milk; eventually milk from the south was supplied. The name was changed from Wind scale as part of the cover up. I'm radioactive because of this. Still strong at 77. 😂
Saving the world right here. Heroes the lot of them
Can I ask where does this Toxic waste collection process go, where is this material sent and what happens to the radioactive waste?
They said the facility will be filled up and closed for about 100 years. Over time radioactivity of these materials decays.
@@bim-okoje5770 Whilst is does decay over time, certain isotopes of the waste have a half life of thousands of years so it will be a very long term solution needed. To the OP, i'm not sure specifically with the magnox swarf but they tend to reprocess the waste if they can first, to get anything useful out or isolate the most dangerous elements. Then the high level waste is stabilised for long term storage (often vitrified into a glass product and stored in safety casks)
I think they are building a giant 'burial chamber' kind of bunker in Finland.
@@beeftec5862 That's only the fuel itself that was in the rod. The issue posed from the likes of the silos are the corroded cladding and some fission products from the spent fuel, as the decanning process for Magnox fuel rods in Magnox Reprocessing differed to the shearing for the Oxide (AGR & PWR) fuels at THORP, whereby some of the spent Uranium metal never entered the dissolver.
Solid and sludge waste from the silos or ponds is encapsulated and effluents treated by existing effluent treatment (which removes actinides and radioisotopes) on the Site. Additional facilities are currently under construction to further manage the Silos waste and continue the safe operations of the effluent treatment plants.
High Level Waste is being processed, with the existing volume currently stored in storage tanks on the Site prior to calcination and vitrification.
@@clappedoutmotoryep, besides the enormous plant they have now, finnished, and alreaddy shows cracks, really safe i say🥺💥
Might have to become operational again.
A masterclass in obviscating language.
Dam I'm only like 30 miles away from this place
So 29 or 31 miles?
One of the main problems that I’ve realized is frequently overlooked when we talk about nuclear energy being a so-called “green” method of energy production is waste management. We literally don’t know how to deal with it besides dumping it in a big hole and hoping it doesn’t leak out. If this is such a problem now with such low usage of nuclear energy across Europe presently, then imagine how much this problem would escalate when we start to deploy nuclear fission plants at the same scale as fossil fuel plants…
I am in favor of going nuclear. I think we’ve got to a stage where the _production_ is relatively safe, and the lack of emissions associated with fossil fuels is appealing. I honestly believe that it is a big key to the global warming crisis that we’re in right now. But I think there needs to be a huge global effort into figuring out a feasible long-term solution to waste management i.e. we need to find new ways to _reuse_ this material rather than dumping and forgetting about it, or passing the responsibility to other countries and then blaming them for accidents…
And I strongly believe the answer to the long-standing question of waste disposal is nuclear fusion. There is no long-lasting waste produced by fusion as there is with fission, and the amount of energy produced by such a reaction is about 4 times as much as fission. The difficulty is getting a positive power output, because right now we can’t influence such reactions without putting more power into it than we are getting out. But if we can all focus our effort on improving this we can accelerate towards a breakthrough which will change the world forever. I really hope that happens soon so that we can move away from the hazards associated with nuclear fission waste…
U can have magnox and Thorp plants which once the fuel has been burnt you can get 97% of that energy back. Both these plants have started to be decommissioned on sellafied however this was done for many years.
😢 Awfull, I rember in the 90,ies, a tv program showing how some fuel sticks fell over from a transport belt, and just lay there, because they couldent get to them, they just lay there, mega radioaktive.. (sorry if bad spelling, im not english)..
The amount of people who still buy the old Oil and Gas propaganda chestnut of anti-nuclear sentiment is so frustrating for those professionals and experts who understand that, when operated correctly, they’re no more dangerous than an oil refinery or coal mine.
These are old power plants, the lessons learned from early plants can be applied to the inception of new built plants. This is the future. It has to be, otherwise there will be no planet to power.
Fossil fuels kill more people in a day than nuclear has during its entire existence
Maybe if they change the name again it will make every thing safe.
Ariel Stanley
That's a weird name for the Europa Building.
Nuclear power is the way forward to make Great Britain energy self sufficient!
Are you kidding me?
They don't know what to do with the waste, it is being put in steel boxes in water pits, these steel boxes, in twenty years time when they start to leak your nearest safety point will be Paris.
We have oil and gas aplenty.
Biggest money pit in Europe and the biggest job creation scheme in Britain.
Is this really more beneficial than burning coal?
I think you should look up the amount of radiation emitted from coal... might surprise you
Yes, significantly more beneficial, that's plainly obvious.
In the mid-long term for the planet, I'd say it's more beneficial, but it's not the answer to solving the global natural system collapse
So glad we’re using tried and tested power generation now such as burning wood. No to new technology!
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That’s right, tell all our enemies how fragile the site is! 🙄
Ummm... they already know it all. It is akin to telling someone not to take pictures of 100 year old railway tracks because those may be the strategic target.
So it’s closed, what’s the difference now?
Sellafield, three mile island, Chernobyl, Fukushima. Nuclear power, clean, safe and cheap.😂
Hanfort site, La Hage and a lot of russian sites.... the people paid the price.....Not more not les
HANFORD WASHINGTON USA - plan to be cleaned up in 77 years for a little more than $660 Billion. However in 3.6 million years you will be able to live there! Roll-on Columbia River. [TEPCO is dumping waste into the Pacific and should be able to destroy it]
All of those locations are still cleaner, safer and cheaper than the global damage caused by fossil fuels. Any idiot could find that out within minutes on the web.
Agree, really safe.. No thanks, no matter what, thanks for writing that,, 🙏💪
Calm down dear.
No to all nuclear
...And why is that ?
@@robfer5370 It irradiates poison for longer than any government or country can exist
I bet you have blue hair and think climate change is real.
I think it's utterly irresponsible to continue with the UK nuclear programme. Don't you think we've had enough warnings?
It is the only way actually. That is something you lot could learn from the french actually.
Tell us why you think it's irresponsible?
Seeing as our one and only warning was in 1957 I'd say we've done pretty well so far.