The £70 billion project to rid Sellafield, Europe's most hazardous nuclear site, of its waste legacy is more than a decade behind schedule.
Security breaches and delays are rife as nuclear contractor 'puts shareholders before taxpayer'
The Greek God Zeus sent the first woman, Pandora, to Earth where, compelled by curiosity she let evil escape from the jar gifted to her. But the Patriarchs apparently had a covert plan, for at the bottom of Pandora’s Box was the promise of “hope”. The Breakthrough Institute funders and Robert Stone, director of the new film Pandora’s Promise, want us to place that hope in a new generation of nuclear breeder reactors called the Integral Fast Reactors (IFR), to avert a climate crisis.
It’s over two and one-half years since the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, Japan and the contamination hasn’t stopped. It is getting so serious that the IAEA, the UN’s nuclear body recently recategorized the situation as a nuclear event # 3 on its 7-point scale. Tepco, the company in charge, hasn’t been able to stop the radioactive contamination of groundwater pouring into the Pacific Ocean.
The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network investigates the possibility of nuclear waste disposal in Indian Country, including Northern Saskatchewan.
