Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Fission - Controversy
EcthelionGenesis
follow
0
7-18-2008 5:17 AM
46 views
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Related Clips
remarkable photos from up high
10 Most Amazing Ghost Towns
which candidate will care?
Stand Up & Take Action Against Poverty and...
Betrayal, forgiveness and money...
LA man kills family, himself over financia...
Earth from Above
More clips from
EcthelionGenesis
The windscale fire
Nuclear Fusion
Today's Top Clips
Earth From Above - Stunning!
Stories They Can't Tell You
Saudi Cleric Favours One-Eye Veil
Artist Builds Temple of Science
The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator
Cannabis less harmful than drinking, smoking: report
Scientists create solar cells with a twist.
S&M Porn Illegal-Real Life Torture-OK!
Online Identity tools
AP: Palin attack "exaggerated" or "outright false"
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
July 18, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<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;"> </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>
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Blog
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK