http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sellafield Posts tagged with 'sellafield' at MetaFilter. Sat, 28 May 2005 21:51:30 -0800 Sat, 28 May 2005 21:51:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/42360/Safety%2DLast <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/4589321.stm">Sellafield nuclear leak unreported for three months</a> - The Cumbria, UK nuclear waste processing facility has been a constant source of worry and pollution <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/692500.stm">since its inception</a>. Security procedures were called <a href="http://www.irlgov.ie/debates-02/s27feb/sect4.htm">"a bit of a joke"</a> by safety technician Ron Hanas, who was fired for blowing the whistle on the accounting loss of <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64019&region=national&results_offset=360">over 30 kg of weapons-grade plutonium</a>, noting as an aside that a section of a uranium fuel rod was found in a worker's desk drawer. <a href="http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green/story/0,9061,1096570,00.html">Higher levels of plutonium</a> are found in children's teeth as they live in closer proximity to the plant. It makes one think about <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/27/bush.energy/">the current energy policy</a> being <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4647599">written behind closed doors</a>, when the industry can't put basic safety systems in place. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42360 Sat, 28 May 2005 21:51:30 -0800 bush cheney contamination EnergyPolicy nuclear secrecy sellafield AlexReynolds