Fission - Controversy


	Fission - Controversy

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/89f9f2f6-b8ab-4c49-955a-b2749bd3f4ca/01BAC107-86DA-4478-BC8A-18CB157B470F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sellafield&oldid=226324676" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sellafield&oldid=226324676" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sellafield&oldid=226324676"><P>In the hasty effort to build the 'British Bomb' in the 1940s and 1950s, radioactive waste was diluted and discharged by pipeline into the <A title="Irish Sea" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea">Irish Sea</A>. Some claim that the Irish Sea remains one of the most heavily contaminated seas in the world because of these discharges, although the relatively small size of the sea will also contribute to this. The <A title="OSPAR" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSPAR">OSPAR</A> Commission reports an estimated 200 kg of <A title="Plutonium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium">plutonium</A> has been deposited in the marine sediments of the Irish Sea.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"><A title="" href="#cite_note-28">[29]</A></SUP> Cattle and fish in the area are contaminated with <A title="Plutonium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium">plutonium</A>-239 and <A title="Caesium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium">caesium</A>-137 from these sediments and from other sources such as the radioactive rain that fell on the area after the <A title="Chernobyl disaster" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster">Chernobyl disaster</A> and the results of atmospheric <A title="Nuclear testing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing">atomic weapons tests</A> prior to the <A title="Partial Test Ban Treaty" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Test_Ban_Treaty">partial test ban treaty</A> in 1963. Most of the area's long-lived radioactive <A title="Technetium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium">technetium</A> comes from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel at the Sellafield facility.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-29"><A title="" href="#cite_note-29">[30]</A></SUP> .</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/01BAC107-86DA-4478-BC8A-18CB157B470F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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