nuclear-news

Today in the Ecologist – Expose of the damage the nuclear industry is doing to us and to our environment –  by Chris Busby…..

‘Hot Particle’  plutonium -americium found in the Esk Estuary, Cumbria

Killer ‘hot particle’: Sellafield coast ‘like Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones’
Chris Busby

The discovery of a tiny but deadly radioactive ‘hot particle’ in mud from the Esk estuary near Sellafield has highlighted the dangers the nuclear site poses to residents and visitors, writes Chris Busby. Independent measures of radiation show far higher levels that those of regulators, similar to those of the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones. Local villages should be evacuated.

The hot particle scenario at Sellafield beach is the same as in the inner Chernobyl contamination zones. The radiation dose rate is about the same as the 30km zone of the Fukushima reactors shortly after the disaster.
I am angry to the depths…