Sellafield's Radioactive Waste

Jamie's blog, over at Greenpeace UK, has some interesting information about Sellafield:

"Many containers storing the radioactive waste are made of second-rate materials, handled carelessly, and are liable to corrode. Through a combination of slip-shod management and lacklustre construction, 40 per cent of the containers are expected to fail, quite possibly before a long-term storage area can be built and sealed."

Oh, and did you hear that Spain had a 90-minute fire at one of its nuclear plants on Sunday? It led to Spain going to "the pre-alert level of the country's Interior Emergency Plan." I wonder if that is Spain's version of Cobra. Greenpeace, and Ecologists in Action, have demanded the withdrawal of the operating permits, as well as a precautionary shutdown, for the three nuclear plants in Tarragona (the Asco-1, Asco-2 and Vandellos-2 facilities).