Sellafield: Europe's most radioactively contaminated site

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  • čas přidán 7. 10. 2015
  • Sellafield, the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, reveals major development in a scheme to clear up radioactive waste at the controversial site in Cumbria.
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Komentáře • 817

  • @tezlloyd
    @tezlloyd Před 5 lety +1051

    I've just found out that the chippy in Sellafield has closed down.
    What a shame, they used to serve a lovely leg of cod there...

  • @owenstockwood5040
    @owenstockwood5040 Před 5 lety +528

    Chanel 4 News: Sellafield is Europe's most radioactively contaminated site.
    Chernobyl: Am I a joke to you?

    • @jakefarronmerlin7963
      @jakefarronmerlin7963 Před 5 lety +9

      Also only a 5% meltdown.

    • @jontytodd-stewart3908
      @jontytodd-stewart3908 Před 5 lety +40

      @@owlman4167 okay Jesus mad respect but not really, sure its not as contaminated as it used to be but there are places in Russia 200km away where levels are just as high as the middle of the exclusion zone due to rain 2 days after the incident, inside the reactor is still very radioactive and if one were to live in the exclusion zone and indeed those within 200kn receive dangerously high long term doses, there are many hot spots and contaminated objects as well as location that were not cleaned, so yes residential areas and roads are "okay" but forests and soil is very bad as well as the level of ionized particles which was very high until the new arch was fitted, so it is still very contaminated and would be more so had it not been for the sacrificial cleanup efforts

    • @aabra6265
      @aabra6265 Před 5 lety +13

      They said in the news article that it's multiple times more radioactive than Chernobyl

    • @jakefarronmerlin7963
      @jakefarronmerlin7963 Před 5 lety +6

      @@aabra6265 because of the differences in the fuel used at chernobyl and the stuff being stored at sellafield.

    • @owenstockwood5040
      @owenstockwood5040 Před 5 lety +6

      @Fred Yes it is.

  • @fiddley
    @fiddley Před 5 lety +190

    £54Billion? Not great, not terrible.

    • @hansgruber788
      @hansgruber788 Před 5 lety +24

      you're in shock comrade

    • @lyrimetacurl0
      @lyrimetacurl0 Před 5 lety +3

      I heard £50 billion is spent on corrosion prevention in the UK every year so £54 billion for an entire project doesn't seem like much in that perspective.

    • @georgebritten8208
      @georgebritten8208 Před 5 lety +15

      GET THIS MAN TO THE INFIRMARY! HES DELUSIONAL

    • @2stroketimebomb
      @2stroketimebomb Před 3 lety

      £16Billion more than the UK deffence budget, I'd say that's a fair bit!

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 Před 3 lety +2

      @Phil Weatherley the project is almost complete, they are ready to start retrieving the waste. Only thing holding it back is the plant where it is going to be stored, due to Covod 19 there has been some delays.

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 Před 5 lety +335

    Typical of Britain's mainstream media : it's all about money.
    Maybe, in this case, doing a proper job is more important?

    • @koolyman
      @koolyman Před 5 lety +25

      If they wanted to do a proper job of it, they would've designed Sellafield better on creation. But because of cost cutting at the beginning, it's made doing a proper job of it even more hazardous and costly today.

    • @ge2719
      @ge2719 Před 5 lety +1

      @@koolyman exactly, so having the media be like "look how expensive this is!!!!" trying to drum up ghate for nuclear because of these epenses. all it could ever lead to is peopl ein future calling for less money inot nuclear and thus more cost cutting that leads to this sort of problem, or worse.

    • @koolyman
      @koolyman Před 5 lety +5

      @@ge2719 However it does show that perhaps the overall extraordinary cost of nuclear power is not worth it; and that we should rely far more sustainable, renewable sources... That is until the boffins develop fusion, but that is currently quite distant.

    • @ge2719
      @ge2719 Před 5 lety +7

      @@koolyman the cost decreasws the more tech we develop just lioe all tech. To stop using a source of energy this abundant and powerfull because we didnt use it properly in the past woiod be silly logic. by the logic we would have stopped uaing petrolium all togethwr after we found out leaded petrol was bad. We wouod have gotten rid of fridges when we found out cfls were making a hole in he ozone. we will never develop cleaner and cheaper methods of nuclear power if we stop investing in nuclear energy.
      We can invest in both.

    • @bradcrowbar6867
      @bradcrowbar6867 Před 5 lety +2

      Because money is never a factor in these situations, right? Just vote for the proper green candidate who can simply 'will' a solution into existence, yes?

  • @-BuddyGuy
    @-BuddyGuy Před 5 lety +190

    2:19 he needs those glasses to stop his radioactive laser beam eyes killing the interviewer

    • @StrzelnicaFX
      @StrzelnicaFX Před 5 lety +4

      No. Those are "the optimists" glasses...

    • @azzajohnson2123
      @azzajohnson2123 Před 5 lety +1

      Nightmare = “challenging technical piece of work we have to do”

    • @Binitec
      @Binitec Před 3 lety

      @Look behind You He really looks like he recieved an overdose of radiation and the glasses make it even worse.

  • @Tuppoo94
    @Tuppoo94 Před 3 lety +46

    When you're cheap and don't cough up the money needed to process nuclear waste right from the beginning, you'll just end up with an even more expensive and dangerous mess later.

    • @simonphoenix3789
      @simonphoenix3789 Před 3 lety +1

      Tuppoo94 Processing nuclear waste is often dangerous and not economical considering how much cheaper it is to just buy more fuel. This is a problem of old storage techniques that aren't used anymore(at least not in the west). Nowadays it is stored in movable concrete capsules that are monitored constantly and can be moved and buried or further encased if any danger of leakage exists.

    • @985476246845
      @985476246845 Před 2 lety +1

      @@simonphoenix3789 not right, after reprocessing the storage is simplified, and the time required for storage is reduced. Yeah its an expense. but its worth it when you consider the results.

    • @timetochange724
      @timetochange724 Před rokem

      Nuclear Waste has been dumped into the British Channel And radioactive pollution has been introduced into our environment and food change.

    • @douglasskaalrud6865
      @douglasskaalrud6865 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Sellafield’s worst known accident was in November of 1983 when radioactive wastes escaped into the Irish sea. These wastes were produced during reprocessing. In other words, they WERE processing nuclear wastes they made.

    • @hexusmexus6971
      @hexusmexus6971 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@douglasskaalrud6865you gorgot about the billions of barrels the Irish and Brits dumped in the British channel tons and tons of it

  • @badmeme486
    @badmeme486 Před 5 lety +28

    He basically said it's not a nightmare, it's a nightmare

  • @privatear2001
    @privatear2001 Před 6 lety +102

    "Sellafield is planning on abandoning that contract... they say they've now found a simpler quicker way to clean up the mess" - hahaha I was almost expecting him to say "Ah, we're gonna dump it in the ocean"... but he didn't. :)

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Před 5 lety +3

      CraigDCrocodile They never come straight out and say things. Besides, he could reason, if it's good enough for Fukushima, it's good enough for us.

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Před 5 lety +1

      Superpureeliteful I always thought the Baltic Sea was even worse. I have read that Sellafield is partially to blame for that. Sweden is mostly to blame. People eat the fish caught in the Baltic Sea as if they don't know about it. I don't eat those fish or any fish from the Pacific. Probably the Atlantic is very radioactive too. No one is going to tell us otherwise.

    • @Mira_linn
      @Mira_linn Před 5 lety +4

      @@Bevity I'm quite sure it is not Sweden nor Finland to blame for the radioactivity in the Baltic but the ussr and Poland. However that is not why you shouldn't eat fish from the Baltic sea that is mercury and other heavy metals that partly is there naturally and partly becourse the ussr didn't understand that the ocean don't just make things disappear however most ppl in the west thought the same up till the 70's

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Před 5 lety +3

      Kenneth Hermann I guess my point is... not exactly who is the biggest radioactive polluter of the Baltic Sea, but that there are SO MANY sources. I know about the mercury, dioxins, PCBs, etc. too. It is a small body of water that only has about 1% water exchange with other bodies of water, so all of this pollution just keeps building up. I went to Poland and ordered fish at a restaurant, forgetting where the fish came from. It was so good, and enormous portions. I remembered after, but it was only the once. Don't eat fish from the Baltic Sea!

    • @Bevity
      @Bevity Před 5 lety

      J S Oh, well then. Everything is great. No problem at all then. Eat as many fish as you can. Pig out.

  • @tomstickland
    @tomstickland Před 5 lety +37

    Sellafield aka Windscale dates originally from a time when no one gave a damn about nuclear safety and they just dumped things down old mine shafts or in the sea. There's supposed to be some tanks containing things dumped there that have no records of what they are.

    • @tommorris3688
      @tommorris3688 Před 5 lety +3

      Dumping things down old mine shafts is exactly what the recent proposal for new coal mines in Cumbria is all about; when the mines are exhausted, with shafts deep under the Irish Sea, the exhausted mines will be back-filled with nuclear waste.

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler Před 5 lety +3

      You're spewing nonsense and lies. You can't just dump high level radioactive waste into the sea. You can't hide something like that. Someone somewhere would detect it.
      The only attempts was made with throwing it into subduction zones of the tectonic plates, but that's stupid. That waste isn't a waste. It's precious material for the future industry.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland Před 5 lety +6

      @J S they dumped metal barrels into the sea until 1992 when it was banned. There's an extensive video about it on here. Some of the barrels rusted away, some are still intact.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland Před 5 lety +1

      @J S we might have stopped in the 80s but the international agreement was in 1992. Pipeline discharges from Sellafield and La Hague are still permitted though there are 2020 and 2030 targets for a reduction.

    • @tomstickland
      @tomstickland Před 5 lety +2

      @J S sea discharges involve releasing low level waste directly into the sea. Sea dumping involves dumping barrels into the sea. They both involve disposing of waste into the sea. I'm saying that the end of barrel dumping was not the end of dumping waste into the sea.

  • @peteranderson9881
    @peteranderson9881 Před rokem +6

    I am here because of Kraftwerk's concert song "Radio-Activity" where they mentioned Sellafield. I had not heard of it before, and was curious. Thank you Kraftwerk for raising awareness of some upsetting truths.

    • @Caiddenn
      @Caiddenn Před rokem +2

      It says something that Sellafield is trying to contain their waste so tightly. Natural Gas and Coal can pump it freely into the air for everyone to breathe every day. Maybe they should be subject to the same standards. Surely their bottom line wouldn't be impacted... would it?

    • @ZTYUu0Z
      @ZTYUu0Z Před 10 měsíci +1

      nothing to compare here, gas to nuclear waste it is ridiculous @@Caiddenn

    • @jeshkam
      @jeshkam Před 5 měsíci

      The original 1975 version of "Radio-Activity" didn't have the nuclear disaster sites' names in the lyrics, they added them for the 1991 remixed & rearranged version of the song, along with "Harrisburg", "Chernobyl", "Hiroshima" (recently swapped for "Fukushima").

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 Před 5 lety +7

    And thank you mr. technician for patiently correcting aforementioned and very excitable mr. nightmare.....

  • @stellathefella
    @stellathefella Před 5 lety +51

    i can count on one hand the amount of times i have been to the visitors centre.. its 7

    • @tonyduncan9852
      @tonyduncan9852 Před 5 lety

      Haha.

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety

      steve culley ahh, you live close by then.
      Does they water leave that refreshing tingle / burning sensation?

    • @tonyduncan9852
      @tonyduncan9852 Před 5 lety +4

      @@riverdeep399 Background radiation is STILL radiation. You are being irradiated right now. You'll probably survive it, because your body repairs radiation damage (mostly - read the small print).
      The world is less radioactive now than it has ever been. If you understood what radiation was, you'd already know this. Life evolved under much heavier radioactivity.
      The Irish Sea is fucking cold to swim in, and definitely makes one tingle.

    • @stellathefella
      @stellathefella Před 5 lety

      @@riverdeep399 how did you come to that conclusion from a joke? guess much or just make it up? blithering idiot

    • @ToyotatechDK
      @ToyotatechDK Před 3 lety

      Epic 👍🏼

  • @hasher2265
    @hasher2265 Před 5 lety +16

    Heated uranium and hydrogen leaking 😂 I think sellafield is lucky the damn thing hasn't blown up.

  • @fairysox221
    @fairysox221 Před 5 lety +5

    The 11% nuclear levy on electricity bills has not been put aside for dealing with decommissioning costs and waste, but spent on building more nuclear power stations like Sizewell B. Economists estimate that the income from the levy between 1990-98 alone was over £9bn. The industry was privatised and the taxpayer robbed for over 50 billion pounds...

    • @secreteman205
      @secreteman205 Před 2 měsíci

      This statement give made is Fact 👍

  • @1autocadman
    @1autocadman Před 3 lety +3

    you can slag Sellafield off all you want but that won't deal with the issue and money should be no object!
    we need to get this done properly safely and correctly no matter how much it costs we owe it to ourselves our children and Europe and the rest of the world to

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 Před 3 lety

      FINALLY, Someone who understands why it needs to be done. A lot of people in these comments who don't understand the potential severity of the situation. Let's leave it and let it collapse, save our 54b and contaminate the Northern hemisphere.

  • @p-ocust1924
    @p-ocust1924 Před 7 lety +43

    "No leak before several years" from guy with a sweating red ionizing face

  • @vulcangbr6064
    @vulcangbr6064 Před 7 lety +165

    Was he wearing rose tinted glasses? I was always told not to trust those people...

    • @Diablo-ls7fj
      @Diablo-ls7fj Před 5 lety +10

      Vulcan GBR agreed! His teeth were gross too!

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 Před 5 lety +15

      @Bunker Sieben they are known to help people with dyslexia.

    • @erwinderdoofe
      @erwinderdoofe Před 5 lety

      I'm no expert, but i know that the eyes are a good spot for radiation to enter your body deeply. I guess he wants to avoid that...

    • @anikidwolfy
      @anikidwolfy Před 5 lety

      Dude is so rolling in money.

    • @baruchben-david4196
      @baruchben-david4196 Před 5 lety +1

      I'm looking at the world through rose colored glasses
      And everything is rosy now.

  • @pemo2676
    @pemo2676 Před 4 lety +3

    Ah yes, the ol' way of removing a lid from radioactive waste... Poke it with a stick

  • @SnubFocuss
    @SnubFocuss Před 5 lety +10

    Hello from Ireland. Thanks for giving us radioactive beaches and waterways on the east coast of the country. We appreciate your trash so much. Many thanks

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před 9 měsíci

      Has the radiation killed as many people as the bombs you gave us?

    • @jamesfisher4309
      @jamesfisher4309 Před 6 měsíci

      Sorry on behalf of the majority here who never agreed to it and are getting the same problems down our west coast. Good old tories are after a new round of nuclear reactors despite not clearing up the mess from the first lot!

  • @conorgeraghty4178
    @conorgeraghty4178 Před 5 lety +3

    Winscale had a nuclear disaster in the 60s when the plant caugh fire spread radioactive material around cumbria and Ireland ranked 5 out of 7 in nuclear disaster scale Britain government covered it up until the 80s. Perently 2 times higher then the bombs on japan.

  • @martindevans
    @martindevans Před 5 lety +7

    I really just wanted to shout "sunk cost fallacy" at the presenter of the video every time he asked a question >_

  • @EVAN-fy9kh
    @EVAN-fy9kh Před 5 lety +13

    I live in a small town near here called Whitehaven, and my Granda works here. Best paying job in Cumbria I think.

    • @puporossi4888
      @puporossi4888 Před 5 lety +1

      how many Sievert are in the place you live ?

    • @smitbar11
      @smitbar11 Před 5 lety

      Other than tenant farming, Sellafield must be the next biggest employer in Cumbria...................and much better paid than farming

    • @Spamsational
      @Spamsational Před 5 lety

      @@smitbar11 oh yeah, without Sellafield the entire county would shrivel up and die.

    • @shape-shiftingcatandhermin2508
      @shape-shiftingcatandhermin2508 Před 5 lety

      @@puporossi4888 dunno but I heard the readybrek man is from round here 😸

  • @marcusreynolds3686
    @marcusreynolds3686 Před 5 lety +28

    I spent a week there during work experience and got lots of amazing tours from a guy pretty high up and all I can legally say is that one of the storage sites is so fucked that it is literally a ticking time bomb

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety +3

      Marcus Reynolds Great. :/ and still they want more nuke plants.
      It ain't to help with the energy crisis, that's for sure.
      What god awful weapon are they constructing now...

    • @DSQueenie
      @DSQueenie Před 2 lety

      I know people who work there. It’s not great but not in that way.

    • @marcusreynolds3686
      @marcusreynolds3686 Před 2 lety

      @@DSQueenie not a bomb but more a disaster waiting to happen in terms of nuclear waste leaking into the environment

  • @doggonemess1
    @doggonemess1 Před 5 lety +9

    1:26 What the heck was that shadow? It looked like some kind of weird STALKER event.

  • @watkinscopicat
    @watkinscopicat Před 5 lety +11

    how many solar panels can you get for 54 billion? 🤔

    • @jaredgarbo3679
      @jaredgarbo3679 Před 4 lety

      Not much.

    • @fly89
      @fly89 Před 4 lety

      solar panel doesn’t help much when it is only panel 😎

    • @SIXITHS
      @SIXITHS Před 4 lety

      Irrelevent, since this a legacy site of the UK nuclear weapons programme, and needs to be cleaned up properly whatever the financial cost.

  • @beingatliberty
    @beingatliberty Před 6 lety +44

    Solar, Wind, Tidal and Dams surely have a massive place when the long term costs of nuclear are taken into account, Good luck to the good people at sellafield who are clearing stuff up, but surely we worked out that nuclear overall isn't worth it when the hidden extended costs involved are taken into account? maybe fusion can come along but we need a cleaner source of energy.

    • @thomashambly3718
      @thomashambly3718 Před 6 lety +13

      beingatliberty nuclear power creates 0 greenhouse gasses

    • @uber1337hakz
      @uber1337hakz Před 5 lety +17

      @@thomashambly3718 Except from the massive amounts of GHGs from the cement used to make the power plant, the diesel burnt to mine the uranium, the cement used for waste storage etc. etc. it adds up, it is not zero.

    • @thomashambly3718
      @thomashambly3718 Před 5 lety +7

      @@uber1337hakz I said nuclear power, not power stations

    • @user-py9cy1sy9u
      @user-py9cy1sy9u Před 5 lety +4

      By nuclear you mean light water reactors and not gen 4 molten salt reactors?

    • @markosmond6430
      @markosmond6430 Před 5 lety +7

      @@uber1337hakz How about the cost and damage to the earth to find the rare metals needed for solar panels? They move mountains to find indium, neodymium and others rare metals.

  • @blackwolf1066
    @blackwolf1066 Před 6 lety +28

    Local seaweed long the river Wyre was found to be 1000 times the normal safe level of radation.

    • @theobreakspear3068
      @theobreakspear3068 Před 5 lety +1

      Any idiot with a Geiger counter can see it’s perfectly safe there. This man is delusional take him to the infirmary!

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed Před 4 lety +1

      Don't eat the seaweed....problem solved.

  • @tehf00n
    @tehf00n Před rokem +1

    I love how the cleanup is sponsored by a Limited Company :D

  • @ghostqueen2082
    @ghostqueen2082 Před 5 lety +3

    what could possibly go wrong???

  • @tomlindelow7984
    @tomlindelow7984 Před 5 lety +5

    Hanford makes this look like childs play.

    • @tomlindelow7984
      @tomlindelow7984 Před 5 lety

      @Amed Tajan yes they have a tour of one of the reactors and a museum.

  • @ryanirvine50
    @ryanirvine50 Před 5 lety +4

    5:10 the death star has landed!

  • @ndmz903
    @ndmz903 Před 5 lety +27

    Building a new storage building for the other storage building

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 Před 3 lety +1

      yes! that's science!!
      now all they have to do is to push on the next two generation so they find a solution

  • @urbansnipe
    @urbansnipe Před 8 lety +27

    "intolerable risk" 1:33 i feel uncomfortable living on the same island as this place

    • @edwardtupper6374
      @edwardtupper6374 Před 8 lety +6

      I feel uncomfortable living on the same planet 😭

    • @th_2k162
      @th_2k162 Před 7 lety +2

      I feel bad living in the same county as this place😖😖

    • @tippintray
      @tippintray Před 7 lety +10

      intolerable is an industry term, its not "intolerable" in the human sense/definition of the term. it means that it needs to be replaced/repaired as soon as possible it doesnt mean that it is an immediate danger

    • @jamiebrannonfrizocean3314
      @jamiebrannonfrizocean3314 Před 6 lety

      I live within 10 miles of this place!

    • @danielstark8258
      @danielstark8258 Před 6 lety

      Frizocean331 cool?

  • @essex2zz
    @essex2zz Před 7 lety +29

    Look up a video from the 80's called "Britain's nuclear laundry" shows how bad the place really is and what it does.

    • @TheSkippyboy
      @TheSkippyboy Před 5 lety

      yabadoo completely agree with you, if radiation was so dangerous, all airline pilots, and all people on the ISS should end up far worse than they do. They experience far more radiation than someone working at the sellafield plant would on a daily basis.

    • @honved1
      @honved1 Před 5 lety +1

      @@TheSkippyboy Radiation is incredibly dangerous, but that doesn't mean that sellafield isn't safe.

  • @dnickaroo3574
    @dnickaroo3574 Před 5 lety +23

    It shocked me that Nuclear Waste consumes 95.8% of the Budget for Energy and Climate Change.

    • @mrrolandlawrence
      @mrrolandlawrence Před 5 lety +6

      odd they dont really invest cash into research that might substantially reduce the amount of waste. odd because since the 1950s quite a lot of progress has been made in nuclear science. just look at france for instance. 90%+ nuclear and renewable. cleanest air in europe. trust the brits to hamfist the whole process. solid fuel nuclear reactors need to be made a thing of the past with improved technology.

    • @captainpocky
      @captainpocky Před 5 lety +4

      It's because it's weapons waste, not standard commercial waste :/
      In commercial waste, the radioactive stuff is kept trapped within the fuel & the cladding. So it's really not too hard to deal with.
      But if you want to get to the juicy weapons plutonium that's also stuck in the fuel, you have to dissolve the cladding/fuel. Which of course releases the trapped radioactive elements and liquifies already nasty stuff, making it much harder to clean up. This is bad enough when they do a "good" job, let alone the absolute messes they made with early weapons programs.
      (For an example of what I'm talking about, compare commercial "dry casks" to the barrels of liquid weapons waste at Hanford, WA)

  • @lyrimetacurl0
    @lyrimetacurl0 Před 5 lety +2

    4:30 Pfft, corrosion prevention costs 50 billion *every year* in the UK.
    I always use that value as a rule of thumb.

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 Před 3 lety

      so... 2billions euro to get the job done, 48b for greasing that fat bureaucratic British machine
      yup! it's all there, no mistakes...
      it would've cost 3billions to get it done thank god with the bureaucracy in place we saved 1b..
      it's about how much senses there is to it....

  • @markarca6360
    @markarca6360 Před 5 lety

    I have seen it first on NDA's video on how Sweden deals with radioactive waste.

  • @nick000002
    @nick000002 Před 5 lety +10

    You did not see a leaking silo because it is not there
    The building is not great, not terrible its equilvent to a chest x ray
    This man is delusional, take him to the infirmary

    • @ElderScrollsGamer
      @ElderScrollsGamer Před 5 lety +3

      Nick002 Im told the situation at Sellafield is completely under control, theyre are reports of only 3.6 roentgens

    • @theobreakspear3068
      @theobreakspear3068 Před 5 lety

      Actually it costs the tax-payer the same as about 40 X-rays, HS2 is more like 400 chest x-rays, and those Chinese building Hinckley point C are getting 4 million chest x-rays!

  • @hene193
    @hene193 Před 6 lety +2

    Costs are what they are. First time is always the most expensive one. To figure out how to do everything is always going to cost money.

  • @bradcrowbar6867
    @bradcrowbar6867 Před 5 lety +2

    They did improve their "all clear' metronome 'bing bong' noise. Much less annoying.

    • @dh1380
      @dh1380 Před 3 lety

      It almost sounds nice

  • @MatthewSuffidy
    @MatthewSuffidy Před 5 lety +15

    Not very profitable, unless it covers their weapons program as well.

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety +1

      Matthew Suffidy that's why it was built.
      Must also be the only reason they are bothering with it.
      You're right.
      Revival.

    • @ramonverhoeven3758
      @ramonverhoeven3758 Před 5 lety

      The earnings are made and saved, as the tax payer will pay for solving the problems.

    • @joseph-mariopelerin7028
      @joseph-mariopelerin7028 Před 3 lety

      as well indeed

  • @hansgruber788
    @hansgruber788 Před 5 lety +5

    3.6 roentgen. not great, not terrible

  • @B1ssetplaysbass
    @B1ssetplaysbass Před 5 lety

    1:36 the noises in the background are really nice

  • @user-jh2xp2sk3z
    @user-jh2xp2sk3z Před 8 měsíci

    Sellafield, Europe's most radioactively contaminated site..... UHHMMMM CHERNOBYL ENTERS THE ROOM!

  • @davidmyers4056
    @davidmyers4056 Před 11 měsíci

    Legacy off the worst nuclear accident until chernodyll. This is the waste left over from the accident. Famous last words. Dont worry it safe, we have learnt from our last failures.

  • @jaquimcompadre
    @jaquimcompadre Před 6 lety +3

    What country is Sellafield in?

  • @nevermind824
    @nevermind824 Před 5 lety +2

    The reason it's a mess, is that they rushed atomic weapons in the 50s without any thought of how to clean it all up in later years.

    • @streaky81
      @streaky81 Před 5 lety +2

      This is a widely acknowledged fact. Completely indisputable. The guys involved in the weapons program would probably happily confirm that too,

  • @MyUnoriginalUsername
    @MyUnoriginalUsername Před 7 lety +14

    0:45 radioactive pigeons

    • @Showsni
      @Showsni Před 7 lety

      Those are very clearly Jackdaws...

  • @taragragg400
    @taragragg400 Před 5 lety

    When I listen to this so do my neighbors. Oh. There are none.

  • @jmaybarnett
    @jmaybarnett Před 2 lety

    Europes most radioactively contaminated site? are we pretending Chernobyl doesn’t exist now or something?

  • @tommorris3688
    @tommorris3688 Před 3 lety

    Looking after the 140 tonnes stockpile of Plutonium at Sellafield is presently costing the UK Government £73 million per year.

  • @__Wanderer
    @__Wanderer Před 5 lety +1

    54 billion and they are chipping away at a lid with a metal rod? Wtf looks like total sh*t.

  • @stephenhope7319
    @stephenhope7319 Před 3 lety

    Adrian Simper at 2:27 viewing the world thru rose tinted glasses, classic.

  • @misstreebird
    @misstreebird Před 8 lety +2

    reveals a major scheme in development

  • @trevk9619
    @trevk9619 Před 2 lety

    Notice all these sites are well away from London,the politicians are safe.

  • @stephenmccarthy4732
    @stephenmccarthy4732 Před 5 lety +1

    It's more important to be safe and clean than about the money

    • @xiamaramu1538
      @xiamaramu1538 Před 2 lety

      it started when it was called Windscale. They classed filters in the chimney as a folly but it helped when they cut fins on the uranium shuttles to speed up plutonium harvesting. It caused the reactor to catch fire and those filters saved a lot of pollution. Now they want a deep storage at Theddlethorpe for high level waste, knowing funds are tight we fear the worst here.

  • @Runtothefire
    @Runtothefire Před 3 lety

    The job should be to get it done as safely as you can!

  • @rixille
    @rixille Před 5 lety +7

    If thorium reactors become a thing, that would make storage problems a thing of the past, or as I understand.

    • @markae0
      @markae0 Před 5 měsíci

      Wrong. Thorium reactors produce uranium 232 which is highly radioactive, so much so that humans can not handle it as in get anywhere near it. Only with remote control and video can you manipulate U232.

  • @1magnit
    @1magnit Před 3 lety

    multiple myeloma? The stats from the lake district are a bit higher than from the rest of theworld. Check it out?

  • @mjbarctic4513
    @mjbarctic4513 Před 8 lety +9

    My dad works here

    • @jnszy
      @jnszy Před 7 lety

      same

    • @essex2zz
      @essex2zz Před 7 lety +29

      How many fingers you got?

    • @djacob9800
      @djacob9800 Před 5 lety

      Is he the old geezer chipping away at the containment lid while his nuts are in the way?

  • @craknuckle4862
    @craknuckle4862 Před 5 lety

    4:58 I see 1 man working though he may was well be asleep and 3 others watching.

  • @NekoWinters
    @NekoWinters Před rokem +1

    Call it what it is, windscale

  • @johnprentice2546
    @johnprentice2546 Před 5 lety +1

    Let's just spend a few million pounds thinking about a plan to spend more money and try to pull more money for this problem that just won't go away.

  • @Hrafn84
    @Hrafn84 Před 5 lety +1

    Why don’t you Brits get all those doctors and engineers that have been flooding into your country to work on the problem?

  • @DenisJByrne
    @DenisJByrne Před 5 lety

    Never saw so many people smiling about what burying an unsolvable problem.

  • @peterpanbigdick.
    @peterpanbigdick. Před 2 lety

    What happened to stripping the wast of meatals with acid then using electric problems to extract the pollution?

  • @afgor1088
    @afgor1088 Před 3 lety +1

    people blame nuclear power for sellafield but almost all the high grade nuclear waste is from nuclear weapons. ditch trident, keep nuclear power it's clean, safe (the safest of any power generation) and it doesn't spew toxic waste into the environment like lithium batteries, solar panel manufacture or coal

    • @danem2215
      @danem2215 Před 3 lety

      Site with buildings and pools of radioactive waste requiring a 100 year cleanup = good. Solar panels = bad.
      You're just as ignorant as people who think coal and oil are cleaner than solar.

    • @afgor1088
      @afgor1088 Před 3 lety

      @@danem2215 when did I say solar bad? All I did was try to point out that people like you who think that nuclear forms "pools" (seriously 😂 sad) and who think there's no waste or deaths from solar are pathetic children who don't care about the planet and only about their own egos

  • @jellydee123
    @jellydee123 Před 5 lety +2

    Well at least an enemy knows wheres to sink a nuke.

    • @ashleygoggs5679
      @ashleygoggs5679 Před 5 lety +2

      if they sank a nuke there they would potentially harm themselves. When the 1 reactor melted down in chernobyl the whole world detected radiation after a few days. Imagine what would happen if a nuke spewed thousands of tons of nuclear waste into the atmosphere. It would be like a slow burning mutually assured destruction .

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 Před 5 lety

      I doubt a nuclear bomb on top of nuclear waste dump would make any difference to the damage caused.

    • @ashleygoggs5679
      @ashleygoggs5679 Před 5 lety

      @@snowflakemelter1172 it would kick it up into the atmosphere. Bombs are notorious for spreading radiation so dropping one on waste would likely enhance the amount of radiation being spread.

  • @pushpushlambert8079
    @pushpushlambert8079 Před 6 lety +10

    Free energy ... They said ...

    • @josh256m8
      @josh256m8 Před 5 lety

      Toopy Anne Binoo better than coal. They just did it “wrong” in this case

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety

      The FBI Ummm... No?
      It was never _for_ public consumption.
      It was to build weapons of *"Mass destruction"* ... to impress the US.

    • @mindoza44
      @mindoza44 Před 5 lety

      @Epic erm actually i think he knows plenty !

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed Před 4 lety

      @@mindoza44 As far as the bomb was concerned, anything the Yanks did the Brits had to do as well…..well not so well, but they got there in the end.....now to get out.

  • @sunspotst7697
    @sunspotst7697 Před 6 lety +7

    Its easy to create a mess but very difficult to clean up😆

  • @renlentlesstourist7574
    @renlentlesstourist7574 Před 5 lety +1

    "storage"

  • @edsr164
    @edsr164 Před 5 lety

    Seriously? That’s the UK and the guys are worried about the costs? Not safety nor the expediency with which decommissioning is done?

  • @KielanGaming
    @KielanGaming Před 5 lety +3

    The leak from the old containment building is about 3.6 Roentgen per hour, not great but not horrifying. I'm told it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray.

  • @willlawton2143
    @willlawton2143 Před rokem

    My guy said ermmmmmm I don’t think it’s a nightmare 🤣😁😣😖😖

  • @paulmatthews2922
    @paulmatthews2922 Před 2 měsíci

    Europe's biggest money pit, bigger than even the BBC

  • @abtechgroup
    @abtechgroup Před rokem

    Notice the guy who said its not a nightmare but merely challenging is wearing rose coloured glasses.......

  • @jaymorpheus11
    @jaymorpheus11 Před 4 lety +1

    Maybe aliens are in control of the gov there

  • @mikestein1024
    @mikestein1024 Před 5 lety +12

    Electricity so cheap you won't even get a bill they said then after spending billions to clean it they say solar and wind are too expensive

    • @shootermcgavin4559
      @shootermcgavin4559 Před 5 lety

      Renewable is less expensive and dangerous. Just facts

    • @roadrage9191
      @roadrage9191 Před 5 lety

      Solar and wind energy is a joke.
      Only coal or nuclear is an existing solution today. Maybe within 10 years nuclear fusion.
      That is the reality

    • @snowflakemelter1172
      @snowflakemelter1172 Před 5 lety

      @@shootermcgavin4559 but doesn't generate what industry even needs to produce the materiels to make them.

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 Před 3 lety

      This had nothing to do with electricity. It was the result of the weapons program during the cold War. Past generations were careless with producing the plutonium, so current generations are tasked with cleaning it up. You think 54 billion is a lot, let's just abandon it, see what happens when the most dangerous building in Europe collapses.

  • @solarstoned
    @solarstoned Před 5 lety +3

    tell me how nuclear is cheap and safe again?

    • @TheRandomshite123
      @TheRandomshite123 Před 5 lety

      It's safe

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety

      M€ because a greedy baby boomer tells us so.

    • @danem2215
      @danem2215 Před 3 lety

      Nothing says safe like crumbling open air ponds and buildings with no records of what's in them full of hazardous waste that they used to dump into the sea.

  • @quas392
    @quas392 Před 7 lety +2

    needs more LEAD

    • @H0kram
      @H0kram Před 5 lety

      @Bunker Sieben Yes, putted shortly lead is the stable form of Uranium.
      And that's why it is so good at stopping radiation, beta and gamma rays in particular : it remains very dense, and full of electrons.

  • @Draalo
    @Draalo Před 5 lety

    "I can asure of that"

  • @mjmayo970
    @mjmayo970 Před 3 lety +13

    Along the south east coast of Ireland theirs an unusually high rate of birth defects, children born with cancers ect. It's a hot spot for cancer in Ireland actually. I recall an effort by the Irish public back in the 90s to highlight the dangers of sellafield which involved flooding government ministers offices with pictures of deformed children. Polliticians looked the other way of course.

    • @paul.alarner6410
      @paul.alarner6410 Před 2 lety +1

      and they still will.

    • @paul.alarner6410
      @paul.alarner6410 Před 2 lety +1

      it all makes perfect sense when looked at in pounds shillings and pence.

    • @jimmyormerod4075
      @jimmyormerod4075 Před rokem

      no radiation was released for gods sake radiation came over the uk in the 80s beacuse of chernoble

  • @me124
    @me124 Před 2 lety

    This is why nuclear power shouldn’t be used. The building is falling apart.
    Try putting money into the nhs and finding good dr’s in the AnE departments at Penrith and Carlise and consultants along with Birbeck medical group.
    All about money again and people who try to convince us they have this under control.

  • @macbuff81
    @macbuff81 Před 5 lety

    Nuclear fission not so "clean" after all. I do hope I'll see viable nuclear fusion power generation cone into being

    • @nuclearusa16120
      @nuclearusa16120 Před 5 lety

      This is waste from a REALLY badly designed reactor intended to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. It was an air-cooled open-cycle graphite pile reactor. No nuclear power reactor uses the same technology.

  • @elr8691
    @elr8691 Před 5 lety +1

    Super deadly nuclear waste directly below my feet? Better poke at the lid with a stick!
    I think they have no idea about how to treat it, and those cost estimates are insane.

    • @amandacary6812
      @amandacary6812 Před 5 lety

      Are you joking right ? Oh look lets use machines that might create sparks ..... and we all go boom.

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed Před 4 lety

      @@amandacary6812 As the actress said to the Bishop....if you've never done it before, just poke it like you would with a stick.

    • @ExoVyper
      @ExoVyper Před 4 lety

      its waste stored in water so theres no real threat unless you touch the water

  • @tfmynwa
    @tfmynwa Před 5 lety +3

    Put nuclear waste in boxes in a storage building...yeahhh what if someone will bomb it. Shouldn't this be top secret?

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 Před 5 lety

      Tony_Fcking_Montana we're over run with them.
      Just waiting until they realise.
      This is thanks to Baby Boomer greed. They shafted their children. What a legacy.

    • @midas4057
      @midas4057 Před 5 lety

      yeah so how would someone bomb it?

    • @petrolhead0387
      @petrolhead0387 Před 3 lety

      The buildings and boxes are heavily fortified. Sellafield is a no fly zone, try and get even a drone over the perimeter and see what happens to it.

  • @avocedo975
    @avocedo975 Před 5 lety

    4:10 wow so damn cool

  • @paulsingh9043
    @paulsingh9043 Před 3 lety +1

    Send it to Finland , ounkula will have it!

  • @Chipchase780
    @Chipchase780 Před 2 lety

    I know we need nuclear alongside green energy, but what could 54 BILLION have been spent on with regards to clean energy ? Tidal barrages, more wind turbines, subsidies for the installation of solar panels ?

  • @Marley999888
    @Marley999888 Před 5 lety +1

    Its a fucking nightmare...just say it.

  • @jj-iu3ni
    @jj-iu3ni Před 5 lety

    Just wrap it in lead. Job done

  • @geoffreylee5199
    @geoffreylee5199 Před rokem

    We left before the explosion.

  • @acm_1985
    @acm_1985 Před 6 lety +6

    This is scary - i think they have no idea how to handle all this deadly nuclear waste.

    • @MrSimonw58
      @MrSimonw58 Před 5 lety +3

      Judging by the old man using a crowbar on the lid on the nuclear waste container at 5:02 I think your right

    • @tommorris3688
      @tommorris3688 Před 5 lety +1

      Latest idea is to stick the waste into exhausted coal mines; building coal mines close to Sellafield site has just been approved for "coking coal" for steel production.

    • @gangleweed
      @gangleweed Před 4 lety +1

      @@tommorris3688 By the time it becomes a real health hazard on a day to day basis you and anyone yet to be born will all be dead from old age so never mind the cost enjoy the "free" energy production while they are still allowed to do it. BTW, did you know that low level radiation over a prolonged period is the cheapest form of birth control and you don't have to take any pills to achieve 100% success? it's Nature's answer to the over population problem and also biodiversity.

  • @PETE4955
    @PETE4955 Před 3 lety

    Personnel bullied for raising health and safety concerns ???? We need to find out the management who behaved in this manor, instenous dismissals followed by prosicution.

  • @OfficialLukeyz
    @OfficialLukeyz Před 5 lety +1

    Apparently it’s only 3.6 roentgen

  • @rawwdogg5289
    @rawwdogg5289 Před 8 lety

    when the camera was in the facility I heard a kind of pop noise iv heard this at other facilities on other programs, can someone please tell me what it is? of all the questions I have about the facilities that one haunts me lol sorry for being a dumb ass guys.

    • @adaai2384
      @adaai2384 Před 8 lety

      It's the alarm system. Every siren at Sellafield is supposed to beep every ten seconds or so to let people know it's working.

  • @callumhardy5098
    @callumhardy5098 Před 5 lety +4

    Nuclear costs far more than it will ever make, ridiculous.

  • @SvenTviking
    @SvenTviking Před 5 lety +2

    “Europe’s most radioactively contaminated site”? Really? Think about that statement. Is Ukraine not in Europe?

    • @lukeeclair7736
      @lukeeclair7736 Před 5 lety

      There's more radioactive material at Sellafield than Chernobyl.
      I guess it depends how you define "contaminated".

  • @seandonaghy2473
    @seandonaghy2473 Před 2 lety

    A brilliant example of Orwellian double-speak -
    Check out 6min 34 sec ". . . two of our number one priorities . . . "

  • @joseph-mariopelerin7028

    everybody look sick af... yet so nerdy proud of being a nuclear professor