One of Reasons to Stop Using Nuclear Energy before Accidents Stop it.

Sellafield Nuclear Plant is located on the Northwest Coast of England on the Irish Sea. It is a government owned facility that produces about one-fourth of the United Kingdom's energy. Nuclear waste from this facility had turned the Irish sea into one of the most radioactive bodies of water in the world. 　Sellafield discharges two million gallons of radioactive water into the Irish Sea every day at high tide. This includes a cocktail of over 30 alpha, beta and gamma radionuclides. BNFL admits that radioactive discharges in the 1970’s were 100 times those of today. As a result of these discharges, which include around half a tons of plutonium, the Irish Sea has become the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world. A wide range of fish, shellfish and molluscs continue to show varying degrees of radioactive contamination from Sellafield’s discharges.  Cesium-137(half life is 30 years) and Iodine-129(half life is 15.7 million years!) from Sellafield have spread through the Arctic Ocean into the waters of northern Canada and are having a bigger impact on the Arctic than the Chernobyl accident. Sellafield’s gas discharges of Krypton can be measured in Miami.

The dumping of nuclear waste may put human lives at risk as well. Spray from the Irish Sea turns into radioactive dust, and can be found on beaches and in people's homes.(1) Increased rates of cancer have been reported on the east coast of Ireland and west coast of England

Sellafield has eleven silos full of radioactive nuclear waste. Each silo contains an amount of waste eight times the amount that was released by Chernobyl in 1986.(5) If vapor happened to be released from one of these silos it could result in a disaster much worse than Chernobyl. Leaks of radioactive waste are dangerous due to its half life of 24,000 years.(6) This means that this waste will always be present in the Irish Sea……http://www1.american.edu/TED/sella.htm　--------------------------------------------Cesium137 from reprocessing plants in Sellafield has been continuously contaminating the Irish Sea(the worst No.2 in the world).  The accumulated amount of Cesium 137 is about half of what discharged from the Chernobyl disaster. Cancer among children near Sellafield reprocessing plants in U.K. 2 - 5 times higher - According to 2002 issue of International Journal of Cancer, risk of blood-related cancer such as leukemia and lymph cancer is twice as high among children borne to Sellafield workers exposed to high dose of radiation, and 15 times higher with children at Seascale village itself where the plant is situated.  Similar data was taken in Germany, France and other places in U.K. where people live close to nuclear reprocessing plants, and this is happening not necessarily in times of plant accidents but normal everyday operation. 　http://www.cnic.jp/topics Citizens' Nuclear Information Center
Greanpeace simulation of radioactive discharge from Sellafield and La Hague reprocessing plants

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http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/migrated/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5754.pdf