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It leaches enough radioactive water into the ground to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool every three years
That's actually not bad. That's a slow leak that has plenty of time to dilute with the ground water.
Dilution is the solution to pollution.
This is a fearmongering, sensationalist, click baity style article.
From UK Parliament Committees:
Sellafield’s race against time: nuclear waste clean-up not going quickly enough, PAC warns
Report highlights latest picture on delays and cost rises in c.£136bn 100-year nuclear decommissioning project.
The PAC’s report finds that Sellafield Ltd has missed most of its annual targets for retrieving waste from several buildings on the site, [...] Sellafield Ltd’s underperformance will likely remain extremely hazardous for longer.
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP, Chair of the Committee, said: “The intolerable risks presented by Sellafield’s ageing infrastructure are truly world-class. When visiting the site, it is impossible not to be struck by the fact that one can be standing in what is surely one of the most hazardous places in the world. This is why we expect Sellafield’s management of its assets, and the delivery of the project to decommission it, to be similarly world-class. Unfortunately, our latest report is interleaved with a number of examples of failure, cost overruns, and continuing safety concerns. Given the tens of billions at stake and the dangers onsite to both the environment and human life, this is simply not good enough.
Edit: Since in the report they say the witnesses told us that the radioactive particles are “contained” in the soil and do not pose a risk to the public I thought it would be appropriate to say that at least they used brackets. The degradation of soil and groundwater needs to be taken into consideration as well. And let's not forget the impacts on local biodiversity.
Yeah, that's really fearmongery.
Most of the water that leaks out will be cooling water, which means deuterium mixed with normal water. There may be small amounts of tritium in it, but that's not too worrying either.
And what would be the gain for the UK Parliament to use fearmongering tactics for something like that?
Probably the same thing that has American congress doing it. Ties to fossil fuel companies.
I doubt it's what you say.
All countries have ties to fossil fuel. There is even a shared history of oil and nuclear energy
Apart from that, currently Britain prepares to go all-in on nuclear power — after years of dither and Keir Starmer expected to confirm result of 15-year search for investment at UK-France summit next month. For me, this would be a reason not to spread fearmongering on this matter.
So, any other reason you can think of to back your argument?
My teacup is radioactive, it has a uranium paint from like the 30s
It's also safe to use
So how radioactive is this "Olympic swimming pool" of radioactive water?
Hmm you might wanna take a look at this video?
I have been trying so hard to get one of those red fiestaware plates from the right era!!
Please, don't drink from this teacup. It's really not safe.
You don't even know what my teacup is?
Fair enough. I just got alarmed by your reaction to the video I linked. Take care
To get enough energy from the plate for a single low quality xray image the dude had to wait weeks with the items literally pressed against it
Okay. Is it worse than coal?
I believe there is no reason to compare. Different kind of 'teribility', let's say.
It leaches enough radioactive water into the ground to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool every three years. There is no way to stop the leak until the silo can be emptied, which takes decades.
Sellafield was formerly known as Windscale. In 1957 it was the site of Britain’s worst nuclear disaster.
It's not as good as renewables
That was a Neo style dodge like in the Matrix.
Nuclear is cleaner and safer than coal.
In fact, a fly ash pond is both radioactive and full of carcinogenic substances.
Nuclear is considered 'clean' in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Radioactive waste is not clean in other terms and their disposal is highly problematic. It replaces one problem with another.. France is a great example of this problem because they are very advanced in nuclear energy. They struggle with this and smuggle their nuclear waste to other places in the world.
As for the 'safe' part, this is also debatable.
For humans see a febr 2025 paper on unaccounted cancers fukushima,
For the planet as a whole see a Febr 2025 paper about Fukushima Contaminated Water Risk Factor: Global Implications
Okay but those are too efficient so the capitalists wont let us have them in substantial quantity. Pick a worse option.