RADIOACTIVE waste dumped by the Sellafield nuclear plant in north-west
England will expose populations to a thousand times more radiation than British
Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) admits, according to a report commissioned by the
environmental group Greenpeace. The scientists who wrote the report say that
this could cause hundreds of deaths over thousands of years. The conflict raises
the question of how you judge the risks from this kind of contamination.
BNFL plans to offload 510 terabecquerels of technetium-99 into the Irish Sea
over the next six years. The radioactive isotope is a by-product of the
reprocessing of spent fuel from…
