The nuclear waste scandal involving leaky drums of "radioactive liquor" at a storage facility in a German salt mine called Asse II keeps growing. Commentators see consequences not just for some federal politicians, but also for Germany's ongoing nuclear debate. DDP Barrels of radioactive waste in the former salt mine have leaked and threaten groundwater in Lower Saxony. It's not enough that 130,000 barrels of radioactive waste are sitting rusted and leaking in a converted Lower Saxony salt mine. But it turns out that the severity of the problem, which this week has developed into a full-blown scandal, has long been known -- and was overlooked by state environment ministers. As early as 2006, researchers mentioned "radioactive liquor" in a report on the Asse II salt mine to state officials, according to a regional newspaper called the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
The nuclear waste scandal involving leaky drums of "radioactive liquor" at a storage facility in a German salt mine called Asse II keeps growing. Commentators see consequences not just for some federal politicians, but also for Germany's ongoing nuclear debate.
DDP Barrels of radioactive waste in the former salt mine have leaked and threaten groundwater in Lower Saxony.
It's not enough that 130,000 barrels of radioactive waste are sitting rusted and leaking in a converted Lower Saxony salt mine. But it turns out that the severity of the problem, which this week has developed into a full-blown scandal, has long been known -- and was overlooked by state environment ministers. As early as 2006, researchers mentioned "radioactive liquor" in a report on the Asse II salt mine to state officials, according to a regional newspaper called the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.
Apparently, the supervising mining authority, wich also knew of the conduction of radioactive liquids from the research into the dump chamber, learnt that the conduction of radioactive liquids requires an official permission only earlier this year. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
(Note to SPIEGEL ONLINE English editor if reading: no drums but groundwater washing through, and Lauge in this context translates to "lye" or "leach" - we aren't talking about a bewerage...) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Interim Review: Leak of radioactive liquor in the feed clarification cell at BNG THORP Sellafield | Greenpeace UK
Summary Published by nuclear engineers John Large & Associates, this review examines the failure of pipework in the feed clarification cell of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (THORP) at Sellafield that resulted in closure of the plant in April 2005. Operation of THORP is contracted to the British Nuclear Group (BNG) and owned by the government agency the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
But I agree that it is probably not the best choice for a general-audience journalism piece. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
In the absence of this we have a hodge-pdge of inadequate solutions that keep failing. It's not a good sales pitch to keep irradiating the countryside simply because you can't stop barrels rusting in the inadequate temporary facilities where they've been rotting since the dawn of the nuclear age.
Personally, I've moved towards supporting vitrification and dispersal in deep oceans, say the mid-Atlantic ridge where the abyssal volcanic smokers are already pouring out pollutants faster than mankind is, with a non-zero radioactive content. so it'd just get lost in the noise.
not green, but despite the bs from gnorant politicians, nuclear isn't green. If we have to have a non-green base load (and I'm still not convinced) then lets do it proeprly and fund it properly now. not pretend we're funding it by loading it onto future generations at government level. keep to the Fen Causeway
