[WorkingClassFilth]

Here's the government spokesman at the news conference:

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[stboz]

Any unsafe geometry problems here?

[BenLurkin]

No danger to the public from a spilled 20 tons of Urnaium/plutonium mixture?

Tell you what -- if I lived within thirty miles of that place I and the family would make a spontaneous vacation to, say, Hawaii.

[Buddy B]

" Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) "

" In August 1997, the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate granted British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) the Consent to Operate its Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) at Sellafield. THORP, which has been operating since March 1994, has reprocessed well over 800 tonnes of fuel. THORP recovers usable uranium and plutonium from spent nuclear fuel. The main process areas are the fuel receipt and storage area, the head end plant where the fuel contents are separated out from the cladding, and the chemical plants where the uranium and plutonium are separated out from the waste products. BNFL plans to achieve a throughput of 900 tonnes by Thorp's fifth year and reprocess in all 7,000 tonnes of spent fuel in the first ten years, making at least £500 million profit after accounting for all decommissioning and capital costs. THORP is expected to reprocess 14,000 tonnes of spent fuel in its first 20 years of operations and in the order of 100 tonnes of plutonium will be recovered during this time. The exact quantity of plutonium will be dependent on the type of fuel and the level of irradiation in the reactor the fuel originates from. The company has over 15 years' worth of orders, valued at £12 billions, two thirds from overseas as well as the new AGR spent fuel contract. "

Sellafield

[TXnMA]

Depending on the stainless steel alloy composition -- and the quality of the welds in that stainless catch-basin, those Brits should be concerned about having that much strong oxidizer (conc. HNO₃) on the loose -- radioactive or not...

Not the sort of thing I'd want anywhere near my water supply...

[taxesareforever]

Fuel for the anti-nucs. Too bad because nuclear is the best way to go for energy.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Crud.