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Nuclear plant closed after radioactive flood

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Nuclear fuel reprocessing at the UK's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) at Sellafield in Cumbria has been halted indefinitely after a critical failure in the plant's pipe work. The leak led to 83 cubic metres of a highly radioactive liquor flooding the floor of a vast - but permanently unmanned - processing area.

[URL=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7359]read more[/URL]

Comments

  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    Scoop it up, bottle it, and let's have a party! :)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Does it glow? We could make glow sticks out of it!
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Glow sticks? Make glowing people. More fun!
  • E.TE.T Quote-o-matic
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Random Chaos [/i]
    [B]Glow sticks? Make glowing people. More fun! [/B][/QUOTE]Well... they should have enough stuff for that.
    It took leaking 20 tons of Uranium and Plutonium before someone noticed there's too little of that stuff coming out of other end of the pipe.


    [url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1479527,00.html[/url]
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