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May 1998:
Drawings of Sellafield's nuclear waste discharge pipe
Reports:
 Radioactive
contamination in Scotland from BNFL's Sellafield reprocessing plant.
Radioactive
contamination in Ireland from BNFL's Sellafield reprocessing plant.
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27 May 1998:
New scientific results released by Greenpeace today reveal for the first time the levels of
pollution in sediments at the end of Sellafield's nuclear waste discharge pipe. A sample
of the sediment, collected by divers in full-protection suits, shows the sea-bed itself
has been so contaminated as to classify it as nuclear waste under European
Commission (EC) standards. Read
the press
release
25 May 1998:
Action Pictures
24 May 1998:
It was revealed today that a serious leak of radioactive waste in the Sellafield plutonium
reprocessing plant THORP threatens the future operation of the facility. A letter from
a British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) worker, sent anonymously to the anti-nuclear group CORE,
reveals that BNFL are attempting to cover-up the scale of the problem in an
effort to restart the facility before important clean up work is completed. Read
the press
release
12 May 1998:
Greenpeace launches a major investigation into radioactive
contamination caused by
nuclear waste discharges into the Irish Sea from British Nuclear Fuels' (BNFL) Sellafield
reprocessing plant. Citing new data
indicating that the level of radioactivity in some Irish Sea seafood is now 42 times
higher than European standards for
contamination of food after a nuclear accident, Greenpeace is calling on the British
government to join its European neighbours in
banning radioactive discharges to the marine environment. Read
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release
April 1998:
Sellafield's radioactive pigeons expose failure to
control radiation: Greenpeace calls for official investigation.
Greenpeace releases a report that argues that radioactive
Sellafield pigeons may indicate widespread and unexamined
contamination of the general public and the environment. The report
"Radioactive Pigeons at Seascale: findings and implications" has
been submitted to the UK Agriculture Minister, the UK Committee on
the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), the
European Commission and the International Commission on radiological
Protection (ICRP).
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March 1998:
Greenpeace releases new data which shows that pigeons
living in the area of BNFL's Sellafield plutonium reprocessing
plant are so severely contaminated with radioactivity that they
pose a serious public health and environmental hazard. The
environmental organisatition had the contaminated Sellafield
pigeons analysed at a French laboratory and further analysis is
being carried out in Germany and Belgium. The report is available on
request (please e-mail the webmaster at: webmaster@xs2.greenpeace.org)
Greenpeace letter to Minister Meacher concerning radioactive
Sellafield Pigeons
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February 1998:
Following the announcement of a ten mile exclusion zone for handling radioactive pigeons
in the Sellafield area, Greenpeace has
called on the Government to turn down British Nuclear Fuel's (BNFL) application to
increase discharges of radioactivity into
the environment.
Greenpeace Nuclear Campaigner Pete Roche said, "Radioactively contaminated lobsters,
seagulls, seaweed and now pigeons -
radioactive waste is being deliberately and knowingly released into the environment and
this is the consequence. There is no
'safe' limit. There is no exclusion zone big enough to protect people. Instead of taking
action to reduce radioactive discharges,
BNFL actually wants to increase them. The Government must step in."
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