DR says... You mean somewhere near Dungeness? -- Lozzo Triumph Daytona 955i SE Suzuki SV650 K3 Honda CBR600 F-W Suzuki GSX-R750L Yamaha SR250 SpazzTrakka
On a related note, I do think they should put any nuclear waste dump under the Houses of Parliament. It might not be the safest place for it but you can guarantee that there will always be enough money in the budget keep a close eye on it.
That's tried and tested; I mean the experimental stuff, the one that went pop, and all the other messy things they've got up here.
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:13:38 +0100, DR snip> Like right next door to Dungeness A and Dungeness B perhaps? Perhaps they might have built it somewhere closer like Aldermaston instead? Sorry Darren but your point on this one isn't quite hitting the spot. Let's try asking about the contaminated land in Cumbria that the farmers still can't use and the majority of the country don't even know about.
How much of that is due to Windscale, and how much is due to Chernobyl? Am I likely to get black helicopters overhead just for asking? Again, it's far enough from London to be ignored and forgotten.
My understanding is that the area is still contaminated by both incidents but it's only minor stuff. I suppose a google for the half life of plutonium whatever the number was would give an answer.
A quarter of a million years, or thereabouts. A rather long time to have the most poisonous substance know to man spread about the planet with gay abandon by any standards.
Thank **** it isn't spread about down here then. For something that happened 50 years ago this week it's hardly been mentioned by the media. I suppose that's partly because the place was built to produce plutonium for weapons and it'd be disloyal to complain if a few northerners got nuked along the way.
There is also the matter of changing the name every couple of years to help obfuscate the truth. When you bear in mind that the media are in the main young, brash, full of themselves thank you very much granddad and with a memory that even when sober only goes back a very short time then the simple act of changing the name a few times effective removes it from public record. Then again they want us to embrace new clear power so that we can live as a merkin lives and still have a planet to live on, don't forget it is in their interests to play it down for that reason as well. Conspiracy of silence? I can't hear a thing mate, don't know what you are talking about.
They've only changed the name of the site once but it does seem that if there's a problem then the different parts of the plant are referred to by their specific name rather than as Sellafield. If you want to dispute that then consider that Thorp, Magnox and Calder Hall are all part of Sellafield. These are the most widely known names but there are several others that crop up from time to time when things go a bit astray. My company has a full site map on one of our office walls because we've got customers there but I try to avoid going and so far have been 100& successful in my efforts. It really isn't a nice place to work.
Except that Magnox, as I am sure you know, is a the name for a type of reactor used at more than one nuclear power station. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
So the Magnox reprocessing plant at Sellafield is actually a reactor and not a plant reprocessing fuel from Magnox reactors elsewhere?
I see. You mean the B205 plant. Still two Magnox reactors just about operational still elsewhere aren't there? OK, so 'Magnox' in a Sellafield context now means the "B205 Magnox reprocessing plant" since the reactors at Calder Hall were closed down. Is there anything left of those? I see the cooling towers only came down recently. How about we code name it "Northmoor" [1] to avoid any possible confusion? [1] Not strictly fair, but I am sure some will recognise the reference. -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
B205 is the plant number for that particular reprocessing plant. I've spoken to site engineers involved in that plant and they refer to it as Magnox, maybe it's a local thing? If you were to go to Sellafield and ask for the Magnox plant you'd be sent to the reprocessing plant, not Calder Hall. As far as I know it's always been like that. It works in the same way when you ask for the Thorp plant if that's where you want to go. I'm sure you think I was taking the piss with my earlier post but Calder Hall has never been referred to as Magnox whereas the reprocessing plant has. I originally stated that Calder Hall, Magnox and Thorp were all parts of Sellafield and that's exactly what they are. There wasn't any hidden agenda in using those parts of the complex as examples, they're the ones that I know best because past and present employers of mine have worked there. Not me.
I never read any hidden agenda in to your comments. I plead simple ignorance and the 'Cotes du Rhone defence' for last night's post. To my mind Magnox didn't seem specific enough a term. A quick google confirms that, as you say, it has a particular meaning so far as Sellafield is concerned. The name of the fictional nuclear storage facility, featuring a hot cell for plutonium reprocessing, in the BBC's series "Edge of Darkness". http://fabulousbakers.tripod.com/edge/notes2.html -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: | | Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
