If the Saturn V went boom: The effects of a Saturn V - The Space Review The skips have held radioactive material for so long that they themselves count as waste. A B&Q humidity meter sits on the wall of the near-dark warehouse, installed when the boxes were first moved here to check if humidity would be an issue for storage. The sites reprocessing contracts are due to expire in four years but clean-up may take more than 100 years and cost up to 162 billion. All rights reserved. Waste can travel incognito, to fatal effect: radioactive atoms carried by the wind or water, entering living bodies, riddling them with cancer, ruining them inside out. Here's a look at the technology being used in the clean-up operation. "It's so political that science doesn't matter. Video, 00:01:15, Schoolboy, 13, stops bus after driver passes out, Baby grabs Kate's handbag during royal walkabout. A pipe on the outside of a building had cracked, and staff had planted 10ft-tall sheets of lead into the ground around it to shield people from the radiation. Video, 00:00:32One-minute World News, Schoolboy, 13, stops bus after driver passes out. Laid out over six square kilometres, Sellafield is like a small town, with nearly a thousand buildings, its own roads and even a rail siding all owned by the government, and requiring security clearance to visit. Anywhere downwind of Sellafield during the releases would be rendered uninhabitable probably for generations and people caught in the fall-out would have a greatly increased chance of getting . Queen Elizabeth II at the opening ceremony of the Windscale nuclear power station, later known as Sellafield, in 1956. ome industrial machines have soothing names; the laser snake is not one of them. An anonymous whistleblower who used to be a senior manager at Sellafield told the broadcasters Panorama programme that he worried about the safety of the site every day. The spot where we stood on the road, he said, is probably the most hazardous place in Europe. The contingency planning that scientists do today the kind that wasnt done when the industry was in its infancy contends with yawning stretches of time. What would happen if Sellafield exploded? Correction: we mixed up the Sun's lifespan with its age. That would contaminate fisheries and travel north on currents, making fishing in western Scotland impossible. The total amount released from Chernobyl was 27 kilograms, almost 100 times less than the potential release from the facility at Sellafield. This is what creates a Type II supernova: the core-collapse of an ultra-massive star. My relationship began at 13 when I went to school at St Bees, just three miles away. This stopped operating before I was born and back then there was a Cold War mentality, he says. NDA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and publishes a tax strategy for the NDA Group in accordance .
