http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 01:16:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751#post-161158 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:27:36 +0000 Tripod 161158@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, probably time for a change of name at Sellafield. Three Mile Island, perhaps... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751#post-161114 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:45:26 +0000 Midfield Diamond 161114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good stuff, needs a suitably cynical ending though. How about something along the lines of ...</p> <p>A Nuclear Management Partners spokesman sought to reassure the public. "When Windscale attracted negative publicity all those years ago, the site became known as Sellafield instead," he explained. "We are now working very hard on coming up with another new name." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751#post-161111 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:29:16 +0000 Titus 161111@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>So where's the satire? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751#post-161082 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:54:26 +0000 Dick Everyman 161082@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nice one Tripod. I heard today that there are pools of the shit around Sellafield that haven't been examined in decades, all they know is that they are probably toxic! Maybe they could turn them into public Lido's? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=55751#post-161064 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:36:40 +0000 Tripod 161064@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>A new report is critical of Nuclear Management Partners, the consortium which operates the Sellafield nuclear plant. In particular, the report highlights the illegal dumping of nuclear waste at landfill sites in West Cumbria. </p> <p>The truth is even more alarming, as whistleblower Ken Briggs told journalists today. “The sheer incompetence is staggering”, said Ken, "with managers at Sellafield finding new - and decidedly unorthodox - ways to get rid of nuclear waste. They posted packets of spent nuclear fuel to non-existent addresses around the north, mostly in Hull. They left brief cases full of the stuff in the backs of taxis. Workers at the plant were encouraged to take spent plutonium rods home and use them as table decorations and conversational pieces. </p> <p>“Some of this material will remain dangerously reactive, a threat to our health, for thousands of years. It should be stored in lead-lined casks in underground bunkers, with concrete walls ten-feet thick... not left in plastic bags at the bottle bank in Tesco’s car-park in Cockermouth”... </p>