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BBC NEWS | Business | Group chosen for Sellafield job

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:24 -0000

A consortium, including the UK's Amec, has been named as the government's preferred choice to clean up and run the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.

The UK's Amec, URS's Washington Division of the US, and France's Areva have been shortlisted for the £1.3bn-a-year contract.

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Planned plutonium shipment raises concerns - UPI.com

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:07:00 -0000

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BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Sellafield 'dirty for a century'

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:53:37 -0000

It will take over 100 years before the toxic nuclear site at Sellafield is safe, it has been revealed.

A Westminster report claims that the UK's largest atomic power-station, overlooking the Irish Sea, won't be completely clean until 2120.

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Nuclear waste | Anybody want some plutonium? | Economist.com

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:09:46 -0000

THE half-life of official opposition to nuclear power in Britain has been very short. In its first energy white paper in 2003, the government was disdainful, devoting most of its time to wind and solar power. By 2006, the talk had shifted to replacing Britain’s existing capacity. In January 2008, John Hutton, the business secretary, upped the ante again, calling for a big expansion of nuclear power.

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BBC NEWS | UK | Plans to bury nuclear waste

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:53 -0000

Proposals to deal with Britain's legacy of nuclear waste are being published by the government.

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The Irish Times - Sellafield's nuclear waste 'more dangerous' than Chernobyl

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:33:30 -0000

SELLAFIELD HAS the world's biggest stockpile of plutonium and uranium and storage tanks contain highly volatile radioactive waste "more dangerous" than the Chernobyl reactor, according to a study published today.

The study, Voodoo Economics and the Doomed Nuclear Renaissance, also says the British government is now unlikely to meet its 1998 commitment under the Ospar Convention to reduce "close to zero" Sellafield's radioactive discharges into the Irish Sea by 2020.

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North West Evening Mail: Fears over nuclear waste transport plan

Fri, 30 May 2008 17:13:18 -0000

A MAJOR development to import and export radioactive waste in and out of Sellafield could create 105 new jobs.
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NUCLEAR FEARS: Martin Forwood of CORE. Main picture: Sellafield REF: 01637542

The building would be used for surface storage of intermediate level waste before it is exported to a final permanent repository, when one is built.

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Whitehaven News: Secret plutonium shipments begin

Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:29 -0000

THE first of a number of shipments of Sellafield plutonium sailed from the Port of Workington last weekend on board the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s ship Atlantic Osprey.

The secretive night shipment, already delayed by two months because its original departure date was leaked in advance to the press, was accompanied by what one local resident described as ‘over the top, wall-to-wall security’ which sealed off the docks.

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News & Star: The hero who put out a nuclear reactor fire with waterdies at 90

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:44:07 -0000

When the phone rang, Tom Tuohy was at home, nursing his wife and two children who were sick with flu. It was the evening of October 10 1957, and 39-year-old Tom was deputy general manager at the Windscale and Calder works, which in later years became known worldwide as Sellafield.

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