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“In two to three
years we’ve reduced part of the site from something that would kill you in a
few hours to somewhere you can walk through in safety”, Andy Staples, Womad (Winfrith Operations
Maintenance and Decommissioning), BBC News Online, 30 April, 2004.
For consideration, something relevant I found online:
On Winfrith 1958-1990
What should we say
about Winfrith?
About the Steam
Generating Heavy Water Nuclear Reactor,
The plutonium
laboratories on Egdon Heath?
Should we rejoice
That the
decommissioning and clean-up costs
And the allocations
have been drastically cut?
Just two more reactors
to go!
Thirty five years have
been saved, it’s claimed,
As well as 300 million
pounds-
Thanks to a change in
the ‘discount’ rate,
The revised financial
rules
The Nuclear Directorate states that it “will seek to focus
a proportionate level of regulatory attention on ensuring the continued safety
of higher-hazard facilites.”
Comforting news.
Roll on 2020, roll on
2050!
Someone should preach
about Purbeck,
About what’s been lost in
the rivers,
About the impact on wildlife
and habitat;
About liquid radioactive
waste
Dumped in Weymouth Bay
Offshore of Arish Mell:
About plans to restore the
environment,
About the contaminated,
hazardous heath.
Winfrith Newburgh, East Burton and Wool.
While there’s talk of national
affordability and competing priorities,
We all get a gamma dose.
Is it safe to consume
crustaceans,
To eat fresh fish or
molluscs?
The public’s exposure to
radiation
At least is only ALARA:
“As Low as Reasonably Achievable”.
Are you listening?
I’m gonna get me a Geiger counter,
And a sodium iodide
scintillation counter.
“Poole
Harbour
and there is potential washout
of gaseous discharges entering via the River Frome.”
Scintillating news.
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