#Sellafield

[northern-punk-lad]

“Why don’t you surport nuclear” maybe because a storage site for the waste puts multiple countries at risk if anything goes wrong with it

[ceevee5]

“The site has the largest store of plutonium on the planet and is a sprawling rubbish dump for nuclear waste from weapons programmes and decades of atomic power generation.”

[man-and-atom]

“Burst Slug Detection Gear” sounds like a topic at the local Garden Club meeting.

To see complete scans of three visitor guides for Calder Hall and Sellafield, from 1957, 1961, and 1986, go here.

[davidhencke]

The mad waste of public money by UK's leading nuclear giants to pursue costs against a whistleblower at your expense

Sellafield One aspect of the second recent cost hearing against whistleblower and human resources consultant Alison McDermott by Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority which was not covered is the cost to the public and us the taxpayer. During the hearing Deshpal Panesar, KC Sellafield’s lawyer from Old Square Chambers, rather pompously told the hearing that the fact Sellafield…

[digitalcreationsllc]

Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China

The UK’s most hazardous nuclear site, Sellafield, has been hacked into by cyber groups closely linked to Russia and China, the Guardian can reveal. The astonishing disclosure and its potential effects have been consistently covered up by senior staff at the vast nuclear waste and decommissioning site, the investigation has found. The Guardian has discovered that the authorities do not know…

[v-spicata]

Here's some choice quotes from the article: "A document sent to members of the Sellafield board in November 2022 and seen by the Guardian raised widespread concerns about a degradation of safety across the site, warning of the “cumulative risk” from failings ranging from nuclear safety to asbestos and fire standards." Fuck me, if you can't trust a place to deal with asbestos problems, why are they being trusted with nuclear waste? "A scientist on an expert panel that advises the UK government on the health impact of radiation told the Guardian that the risks posed by the leak and other chemical leaks at Sellafield have been “shoved firmly under the rug”." 👍👍👍

Oh hey, that sounds totally reasonable and not at all worrying. "A senior Norwegian diplomat told the Guardian that they believed Oslo should offer to help fund the site so that it can be run more safely, rather than “run something so dangerous on a shoestring budget and without transparency”. Jesus Christ, the Norwegians are so scared of our incompetence they're offering to stuff the cracks with cash. "Inspectors said that it is not possible to work out how many cracks have formed in the silo so are using guesswork and modelling based on leaks from the facility to work out the risk posed to the public and workers at the site." I mean guesswork's a pretty valid part of my own work but then I'm fixing farmyard fences and not managing a nuclear waste silo. Sliiiiiightly different risk factors involved there. "The ONR warned in its latest review of the Sellafield site, published in March this year, that “regulatory intelligence indicates that improvements are required in conventional safety, fire safety, cybersecurity and progressing high-hazard risk reduction”." Apparently this is all came to light during an investigation on how they've let malware sit in their computers since 2015. And the pièce de résistance:

"A Sellafield spokesperson said: “We are proud of our safety record at Sellafield and we are always striving to improve."

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Final thoughts: This is why I don't trust nuclear power over renewables, because cutting corners and "sweeping issues under the rug" is all part of the game in this hellhole. The stakes involved in nuclear power mean that corruption is so much more serious with radioactive material when things do go wrong. Even if Sellafield does somehow get their shit together, the longetivity of nuclear waste means that the custodians of it have to stay reliable and trustworthy for hundreds of years and I just don't see that happening. Near me there's a place called Parys Mountain, an old copper mine from the 1700s. It's a bizarre and barren landscape of red, green and sulphur-yellow rocks that would look more at home on Mars than Anglesey. The reason it is that way is because of the dumped spoil and disposed chemicals from the copper works. The ground is so polluted that even three hundred years later, plants still cannot grow there. The actions we take now will echo far into the future and plutonium's one hell of a riskier toy to play with than copper.

[elizabethkiem]

Marilynne Robinson being charitable - it wont last long

What Sellafield reflects in terms of the intentions of those who set all this in motion is not a simple question. The more secretive and narrowly based decision making it is, the more eccentric it becomes, and often things happen for reasons that are foolish and bizarre, and therefore elude all surmise.

"The government continues to seek volunteers."

[elektroblues]

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (No Nukes 2012, Tokyo, Japan)

In 2012, Kraftwerk performed the new remix of "Radioactivity" during No Nukes 2012, held in Japan. To commemorate the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Hütter sang alternate lyrics to the song in Japanese. The new lyrics were translated into Japanese language by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and make direct reference to Fukushima. This version of the song also has notable lyric changes such as "Chernobyl, Harrisburg, Sellafield, Fukushima," as well as calls for the end of Japan's use of nuclear technology. [X]

[jorjin]

"Nuclear is the safest and cleanest energy source yadda yadda yadda" yea sure I still don't like it. I don't trust companies to not cut corners like they did so many times before and cause permanent contamination.

"But the contaminated areas barely killed anyone!!" are you hearing yourself. They're still contaminated. They're still actively harming whatever living organism crosses it.

I will NOT trust nuclear until people stop caring about profits. Because energy production is still profit driven and I don't trust companies to not cause massive catastrophes because they wanted to get a little richer. Even if it's as safe as you all say, I don't trust them to properly train people into handling the materials correctly. Because that's exactly how most accidents went.

[postoctobrist]

WTYP on Sellafield? I will admit this is semi-hatemail, because I hate the smug ”actually nuclear is the safest thing ever” attitude people have but that was all over the Three Mile Island episode.

nuclear is the safest thing ever, it’s just that British people find a way to ruin everything

[sztupy]

It only affects Newcastle in the UK, so who cares?

@macipower időbe költöztetek!

[wehavecomeforyourprivateschools]

This is fucked. So much important info I and probably most people don't know, like this:

"The estimated cost of running and cleaning up the site have soared. Sellafield is so expensive to maintain that it is considered a fiscal risk by budgetary officials. The latest estimate for cleaning up the Britain’s nuclear sites is £263bn, of which Sellafield is by far the biggest proportion. However, adjustments to its treatments in accounts can move the dial by more than £100bn, more than the UK’s entire annual deficit."

[davidhencke]

Guest blog: Sellafield deploys reverse glasnost

by Philip Whiteley Sellafield site As reported on this blog earlier this week, the confrontational, five-and-a-half-year whistleblowing litigation between equalities adviser Alison McDermott and Sellafield and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority last week featured a one-day costs hearing at Leeds Employment Tribunal, even though an earlier costs award against Ms McDermott had been ruled as…

[soon-palestine]

These Labour Party MPs and former MPs voluntarily went to 'Israel' to support the genocidal attack on Gaza. Here they sit with the President Isaac Herzog - the supposedly 'Centre-Left' figure - who has been busying himself calling for genocide in Gaza and even writing messages to shortly-to-be-murdered children on Zionist bombs before they are dropped.

Each one of these toxic figures is now vulnerable to proceedings as accessories to genocide.

Just in case the @ICJ or any lawyer compiling a case for British suspects needs their names they are as follows:

@RuthAnderson

formerly Ruth Smeeth, the State Department asset (said in the Wikileaks cables to be 'strictly protect') who was so hated that she had to change her name to Anderson in the manner of the poisonous Windscale power station changing its name to Sellafield. Smeeth is now in charge of a 'free speech' journal, which started off as and still is a CIA asset.

@margarethodge In March last year @Jonathan_K_Cook wrote: 'Hodge, who's spent years helping to hound anti-racist Jews out of Labour for criticising Israel, in a campaign that brought down its former leader, admits she hadn't been to Israel since 1994. She's shocked to now discover it's an apartheid state.' Hodge seems already to have forgotten it's an Apartheid state.

@LouiseEllman a stalwart of both Labour Feinds of Israel and the Labour party Zionist affiliate the Jewish Labour Movement. Both are of course fundamentally racist groups which should have no place in a democratic party. Ellman, and her allies, when she was a Labour MP, were of course responsible for overseeing a 'systematic campaign' against ordinary members featuring what the JVL said were 'baseless allegations of antisemitism, wild charges based on a contested interview recording and a scurrilous dossier posted anonymously on a far-right blog.'

@Christian4BuryS Christian Wakeford, the former Tory MP who is now a Labour MP and declares having received money from both Labour and conservative Friends of Israel to help with his prolific efforts to promote the genocidal Zionist entity in the UK.

Each of them should be arraigned at the Hague along with a long list of other British citizens including MPs and Lords, the military and the intelligence services.

Indeed all executive officers of Zionist groups, and all those those who have given material aid to genocide through their statements, or by sending money, or by joining the occupation forces.

DismantleZionism

[haggishlyhagging]

One of the foremost aims of the antipsychiatry movement, both academic and populist, was to remove the 'stigma' of the labels of madness. As in the feminist critiques, the deconstruction of medicalized madness fundamentally challenges the notion of expert intervention, or the existence of madness itself, for it assumes that madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the (prejudiced) beholder. But is this a justifiable endeavour which will result in the de-institutionalization of those formerly labelled as deviants - or is it principally an academic exercise, which actually results in the removal of services which may be beneficial? Is it actually preventing a revolution in mental health care?

The other question is this: does it change the experience? As I have argued elsewhere, it is a common practice to change the label of a phenomenon or object which has received bad press (Ussher, 1989). The nuclear power station Windscale had its name changed to Sellafield; PMT changed to PMS. With madness there has been a considerable casting off of derogatory labels in the 1980s, with supposedly radical professionals espousing the 'new' labels in a way which purports to empower, rather than disempower, their 'clients' (no longer 'patients', as this denotes ‘illness’). Thus the label 'mental handicap' has been replaced by 'learning difficulties', 'mentally ill' by 'mental health difficulties', 'behavioural disturbance' by 'challenging behaviour' ... the list is endless. But in a very short space of time, these new labels come to be associated with the same stigma, the same denigration of the individual. They may even be more damaging, partly because they disguise the process of derogatory labelling through the apparently 'positive' new label, and also because they allow the experts to look no further for reform than changing the label they use to refer to their clients. Labels are important, and they are certainly powerful, but removing or changing the label may do more to salve the conscience of the professional or the liberal-minded political activist, than it does to serve the needs of the person who is labelled. We need to do more than rename the madness in order to change things. The change to 'mental health problems' rather than 'mental illness' might reduce the stigmatization of those in distress (although this is doubtful, given the research on negative attitudes to madness, whatever its nomenclature). But what it certainly does achieve is a considerable widening of the net of ‘expert care’, for many different professional groupings can claim jurisdiction over ‘mental health’. It is certainly not the sole property of the medical professionals. Renaming may demystify interventions for madness. It may dethrone the reductionist monopolistic medical men. But it empowers a new breed of experts to enter the market place of the mad, to pronounce and pontificate, to profit from despair, profiting from madness through peddling the latest cure: the latest therapy. This is not empowering. It further disempowers and objectifies the ‘mad’.

-Jane Ussher, Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness?