(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
