Just last year it was reported that Sellafield 'misplaced' enough material to produce five nuclear weapons.

Can you please provide a link to this story?

Just to be clear, they aren't saying that it leaked into the open, it was an itnernal leak

Thanks for the links folks.

Just to be clear, they aren't saying that it leaked into the open, it was an itnernal leak

That's true Nygdan, but reading through the story linked by Helmutt, we have this:

The latest criticisms of the nuclear industry come after scientists found the teeth of children in Northern Ireland were con taminated with plutonium from the Sellafield nuclear plant. The research, published earlier this month, found traces of the radio active material in every single milk tooth of 3000 children studied.

Scientists believe leaks and discharges into the sea have put the material into the food chain over recent decades. The day after the research was published, British Nuclear Fuels admitted that “lightly radioactively contaminated” pipes from Sellafield had been washing up on beaches in Northern Ireland.

If the kids have radioactive material in their teeth, that means they have it in their bones, and that means Leukemia rates will jump.

What the hell is going on at that place??

Uh oh, thats just up the coast from here and my grandfather is a pipe fitter there.

The Thorp reprocessing plant...was forced to shut after a split pipe leaked...

thats just up the coast from here and my grandfather is a pipe fitter there.

My spider-senses are tingling. It was...it was...SUBZ's GRANDFATHER'S FAULT!! j/k j/k

hehe yeah I'll be asking some serious questions when he gets back! He's actually in a supervisory role there so he's even more likely to know something about it.

Sellafield has long been recognised as a major source of birth defects in both the Republic and North of Ireland.
Indeed, a survey of 319 women who were schoolgirls in Dundalk (Irish time not far from Sellafield) during the Windscale diaster in '57 stated that these women had 18 children die and a further 38 born with with serious birth defects, due to Sellafield.

Its about time its closed down, for the sake of everyone.

These are the countries who shouldnt have nuclear reactors damnit! I bet Iran would be more responsible if they were actually going after energy rather than nukes.

Sellafield has long been recognised as a major source of birth defects in both the Republic and North of Ireland.

Sellafield is in Cumbria, England!!!

Its about time its closed down, for the sake of everyone.

Unfortunately this would result in West Cumbria becoming even more of an economic wasteground than it already is. Someone once told me that about 50,000 people gain employment either directly or indeirectly from the plant.

Oh, and the bit about losing enough fuel for 5 bombs...apparently, so the local news said at the time, this was an 'accounting' error. In fact a friend who worked at Sellafield (and got sacked for failing a drugs test :@@ said that it wasn't unknown for there to be a surplus of nuclear material when an audit was performed. Perhaps all the radiation reduces one's arithmetic competence!!