{"id":7664,"date":"2017-07-21T16:01:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7664"},"modified":"2017-07-21T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:01:49","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-nuclear-waste-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=7664","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – nuclear waste and brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Is nuclear waste about to become a bargaining chip in brexit?\u00a0\u00a0 The UK government this has threatened to send a load of nuclear waste back to various EU countries if the UK is not allowed to “have its cake and eat it” over Euroatom.<\/p>\n

Some background, although its very very complicated and I’m not going to go into any detail.\u00a0 Over the years at least three different re-processing plants have been built at Sellafield.\u00a0 All of them have tried to pick up foreign business which means nuclear waste being shipped to the UK from other countries.\u00a0 All have ended in absolute or relative failure.\u00a0 The Thorp re-processing plant opened in 1994 after taking almost 20 years to build.\u00a0 In 2005 there was a disastrous leak of radioactive material (internally luckily) which had been going on for months but was not detected.\u00a0 This plant seems to be operational again.<\/p>\n

In 2001 another plant the MOX (mixed oxide plant) opened.\u00a0 This was to re-process uranium and plutonium from light water reactors.\u00a0 Again it was a failure only processing a tiny amount of its capacity.\u00a0 It closed after the Japanese disaster in 2011 but has reopened again taking Japanese waste.\u00a0 The pilot plant for this facility was involved in controversy when records were falsified.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This meant that Japanese waste had to be returned from Japan to the UK.<\/p>\n

Nuclear expert David Lowry says we are still acquiring nuclear waste from other European countries.\u00a0 Much of the waste comes from Japan.\u00a0 That which is sitting here from Europe is doing so due to British failure.\u00a0 We took it as a commercial venture. Waste is expensive, dangerous and a security risk to shift.\u00a0 Are we going to carry out our threat?\u00a0 Very unlikely and to do so means total failure of the entire brexit negotiations.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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