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10.04.2008
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Mysterious radioactive contamination turns up in milk produced near Sellafield
Some milk coming from farms in the vicinity of the United Kingdom’s Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria has been radioactively contaminated by iodine-129, and local authorities report it has entered the food chain.
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08.04.2008
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UK Parliament report says NDA nuclear clean-up body in a financial crunch, blames government
The British government is failing to provide adequate funding for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the body responsible for cleaning up Britain’s nuclear waste, and funds will have “increase significantly,” a report published earlier this week by the House of Commons Business and Enterprise Committee says.
copelandbc.co.uk
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03.04.2008
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Britain’s Drigg waste site gets 20-year life span extension from NDA as leak hits neighboring Sellafield
A deal worth up to £500 million ($996 million) for the ongoing operation of Great Britain’s low level radioactive waste site at Drigg south of Sellafield in West Cumbria has added 20 years to the life span of the aging site.
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13.08.2007
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Test explosions at Sellafield’s Calder Hall towers a ‘success’
NEW YORK - Test explosions over the weekend on four giant cooling towers at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria have been declared a success, the BBC reported.
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04.05.2006
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Criminal action over nuclear leak at Sellafield
The operators of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria are to face a criminal prosecution over the leak of tonnes of radioactive material.
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03.04.2006
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UK Government OKs sale of BNG by BNFL
Britain’s embattled BNFL group has gained the right to sell British Nuclear Group (BNG), its subsidiary clean-up operation, meaning the group―which is best known for its decommissioning activities at Britain’s Sellafield site–will now become a private entity.
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