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Sellafield is historically most directly comparable to the Hanford Reservation in the US (southeastern Washington), about which you could say most of the same t
by jcrawfordor 3y ago
Sellafield is historically most directly comparable to the Hanford Reservation in the US (southeastern Washington), about which you could say most of the same things: one of the largest contamination sites, with an extremely long and expensive remediation timeline.
- treadmill 3y agoIt really is not comparable. Sellafield also does spent fuel reprocessing and, like all nuclear energy production, poisons the environment during regular operation: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/20/paulbrown https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/nov/20/paulbrown
- jcrawfordor 3y agoI would emphasize _historically_, but as a matter of interest, the Hanford site hosts multiple currently-operating reactors (including CGS and several research reactors) and contains the fuel processing reactor FFTF - it has been shut down for a couple of decades now but there is some ongoing interest in resuming operation.