Sellafield reprocessing plant

Carlinford, Ireland (port city), impact from Sellafield Reprocessing Plant, 1991-1997 Ryanetal. 1999... 

A cluster of cases of childhood leukemia has been found in West Cumbria (Forman et al., 1987). As a result, an exhaustive reexamination has been made of the emissions from the Windscale piles and the adjacent Sellafield reprocessing plant, including those before,... 

Jones, S.R., Williams, S.M., Smith, A.D. and Gray, J., Review of discharge history and population doses from the Sellafield reprocessing plant in Cumbria, UK The Sellafield environmental assessment model (SEAM), Reported at International Symposium on Environmental Impact of Radioactive Releases, Vienna, 8-12.05.1995, IAEA-SM-339/II. 

In order to be able to estimate the releases resulting from undeclared activities one should consider releases from the declared sites. As an example we consider here Sellafield reprocessing plant in the UK. 

British Nuclear Fuels Sellafield reprocessing plant publishes annual figures of measured discharges and local environmental measurements, in order to conform with environmental legislation (British Nuclear Fuels, 1992). The local environmental burden of anthropogenic radionuclides will be due to discharges from nuclear activities... 

Anglo-Irish relations have also had a nuclear power component to them. These have mainly focused on the question of radioactive discharges to the Irish Sea from the Sellafield reprocessing plant and therefore do not relate to operational reactor safety. However, the Irish government also made representations to the UK government about the decision to proceed with... 

To study the long-distance marine transport of Tc from European reprocessing facilities, samples of Fucus were collected in temperate and arctic regions of the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. Figure 2 shows the activity concentration of Tc in F. vesiculosus (Bqkg dry weight) as a function of distance from the Sellafield reprocessing plant. The... 

Another view on the question whether to reprocess spent fuel and the scope of the radioactive waste convention was also expressed. On the former, it was noted that the UK for example went through a major exercise some two years ago in connection with the Sellafield reprocessing plant. It showed that the decision to reprocess is not radiation protection, or economics, or sustainability, or safeguards, or transport, or employment, it is all of these items and the decision makers have to be able to weigh all of them in a proper balance. And of course the UK government policy is that it is for the owners of the spent fuel to decide whether to have their fuel reprocessed or not. Clearly, there is no option, if there are no suppliers of reprocessing services and those are pretty few in the world. 

A good illustration of the sort of issue that can face plant operators is the case of a paperless chart recorder in use at Sellafield reprocessing plant, Cumbria, UK, in the early 2000s [3], Industrial plant all over the world has for many decades nsed chart recorders, where a parameter of interest - say a temperature in a particular part of process plant - is monitored using a pen on a roll of paper. The difficulty with pen recorders was that, whenever you wanted to investigate something, it always seemed that the ink had run out, or the paper had run out. So, with the advent of microprocessors and memory chips, suppliers started to provide paperless chart recorders, where the section of paper that would normally be visible was replaced by a small LCD display, and the memory inside the instrument stored the signals for later replay if required. They were made to be the same size as old paper chart recorders so they were like-for-like replacements of the older units. They have now replaced the older paper chart recorders almost everywhere. 

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