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.
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.
“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”...
