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Sellafield nuclear site workers claim ‘toxic culture’ of bullying, sexual harassment and drugs could put safety at risk | Energy industry | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/06/sellafield-toxic-culture-bullying-harassment-safety
#Sellafield
#Bullying
#SexualHarassment
#Drugs
#Nuclear
#Safety
#SafetyRisk
#Police
#Cumbria
#Whistleblowers
#NuclearWaste
#CyberHacking
#RadioactiveContamination
#ToxicWorkplace
#OfficeForNuclearRegulation
#ONR
via @bojacobs
Revealed: #Sellafield #nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public
Safety concerns at #Europe’s most #hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with US, Norway and Ireland
Anna Isaac and Alex Lawson
Tue 5 Dec 2023
"Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of #RadioactiveWaste that could pose a risk to the public, the Guardian can reveal.
"Concerns over safety at the crumbling building, as well as cracks in a reservoir of toxic sludge known as B30, have caused diplomatic tensions with countries including the US, Norway and Ireland, which fear Sellafield has failed to get a grip of the problems.
"The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the 'highest nuclear hazards in the UK' – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site known as the Magnox swarf storage Silo (MSSS) – is likely to continue to 2050. That could have 'potentially significant consequences' if it gathers pace, risking contaminating #groundwater, according to an official document.
"Cracks have also developed in the concrete and asphalt skin covering the huge pond containing decades of nuclear sludge, part of a catalogue of safety problems at the site.
"These concerns have emerged in #NuclearLeaks, a year-long #Guardian investigation into problems spanning cyber #hacking, #radioactivecontamination and toxic #workplace culture at the vast nuclear dump.
"Sellafield, a sprawling 6 sq km (2 sq mile) site on the Cumbrian coast employing 11,000 people, stores and treats nuclear waste from weapons programmes and nuclear power generation, and is the largest such facility in Europe."
This does rather remind me of that time the US ambassador did a PR stunt of swimming in the sea just after they carelessly dropped 4 hydrogen bombs on Southern Spain.
#radiation #RadioactiveContamination #palomares
#Fukushima: Japan PM eats fish from region after waste water row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66655801
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