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To: maceng2 who wrote (63681)5/9/2005 4:26:36 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74559
 
Gad, what an awful witches brew! When you add up all the risks and costs, I just don't think nuclear power is worth it...

A leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel dissolved in concentrated nitric acid, enough to half fill an Olympic-size swimming pool, has forced the closure of Sellafield's Thorp reprocessing plant.

The highly dangerous mixture, containing about 20 tonnes of uranium and plutonium fuel, has leaked through a fractured pipe into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive that it is impossible to enter.