JAPAN'S tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant is leaking highly radioactive water into the sea from a newly discovered area of damage. The Fukushima plant has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami knocked out power, disabling cooling systems and allowing radiation to seep out of the overheating reactors. The water was last night seeping from a recently found crack in a maintenance pit on the edge of the nuclear site into the Pacific Ocean.
EXTREMELY low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. The agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the radiation dose received from inhaling air with the levels recorded in the past few days would be minuscule and much less than the annual background dose.
JAPAN'S tsunami-stricken nuclear power plant is leaking highly radioactive water into the sea from a newly discovered area of damage. The Fukushima plant, pictured, has been spewing radioactivity since March 11, when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami knocked out power, disabling cooling systems and allowing radiation to seep out of the overheating reactors.
Extremely low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. A statement from the HPA said the "minutest traces of iodine" were being seen in the UK, with low levels detected at monitoring stations in Oxfordshire and Glasgow. The agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the radiation dose received from inhaling air with the levels recorded in the past few days would be minuscule and much less than the annual background dose.
In 1209 or thereabouts a small group of scholars fled from the already flourishing University of Oxford and journeyed across England to Cambridge. Seven hundred and fifty-five years later, in 1964, my 19-yearold self made the even longer journey from Kendal, the little northern town where I was born and brought up. I took the train, pulled by an asthmatic steam engine, and changed at Bletchley for the Oxford and Cambridge line. I travelled with a large cabin trunk and even larger hopes and dreams. No one is quite sure why (or indeed, to be honest, exactly when) that original group of scholars left Oxford. Or why they chose Cambridge, with its flat and dreary landscape and vile climate of damp, fog and cold.
AN unprecedented plan to export radioactive waste from old nuclear submarines in Scotland to Sweden is coming under fire from local authorities worried about accidents and pollution. The naval dockyard at Rosyth in Fife has applied for permission to ship metal contaminated with radioactivity to a smelter near Nykping in Sweden, run by the nuclear waste company Studsvik.
SHOCKED residents today reacted with disbelief at the secrecy surrounding the tonnes of radioactive waste which has been dumped on their doorstep. They told the Gazette that the dumping of any waste -at whatever level of radioactivity -without their knowledge, just half a mile from their homes in Port Clarence, is a "national scandal.
Extremely low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK, the Health Protection Agency said yesterday. A statement from the HPA said the "minutest traces of iodine" were being seen in the UK, with low levels detected at monitoring stations in Oxfordshire and Glasgow. The agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the radiation dose received from inhaling air with the levels recorded in the past few days would be minuscule and much less than the annual background dose.
The strong letter (November 22) from Geoffrey Stowell in favour of building more nuclear power stations calls for a strong answer, as almost everything he says needs to be challenged. More nuclear power stations are "socially desirable", he says. Not to the millions around the world who have been killed or injured by the effects of radioactivity it isn't. We should start building modern, safe nuclear power stations," he says. "Safe" is the last word to associate with anything nuclear, whether it's weapons, power stations, radioactive waste, accidents or, sooner or later, an act of terrorism.
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