{"id":720,"date":"2016-12-25T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=720"},"modified":"2016-12-25T16:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T16:42:22","slug":"radioactive-toshing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive Toshing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toshing<\/a><\/p>\n

The go ahead has just been given to store radioactive sludge, sand,\u00a0 metal,\u00a0 and\u00a0 gravel at Bradwell. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This radioactive tosh will come from the Dungeness & Sizewell reactors.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It will be taken by Road to Bradwell from the railway station at Southminster.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Which Rail Routes ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What this news story<\/a> does not mention is which routes this waste will be transported to Southminster. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet we can work out some of this from the routes upon which used nukiller fuel rods are transported to Sellafield.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sizewell.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All the used fuel rods from Sizewell are transported by road to Saxmunden, & then south via Shenfield. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a line from Shenfield to Southminster.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So that should be the logical route which it will take.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dungeness.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All the used fuel rods from Dungeness are taken by train via Appledore, then on via Ashford International to Crewe, and so on to Sellafield.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now comes the interesting questions.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Which route will be used to carry this waste ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The line to Shenfield goes via Stratford, but which route will be used from Ashford to Stratford ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At which point will it cross the Thames ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What kind of containers ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course we do not know exactly what levels of radioactivity this waste will be emitting, or Just how much of it there will be.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So we can only speculate about just which kind of containers it will be transported in, and just how many months or years it will take.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How long will it be stored ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The other unspoken question is just how long it is intended to store this muck at Bradwell.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>Could it be that this will become the back door way of creating a long term Low and intermediate level radioactive waste depositary for the UK ?<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Though that will not work, as Bradwell, Dungeness, and Sizewell are going to be effected by rising sea levels.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toshing The go ahead has just been given to store radioactive sludge, sand,\u00a0 metal,\u00a0 and\u00a0 gravel at Bradwell. This radioactive tosh will come from the Dungeness & Sizewell reactors. It will be taken by Road to Bradwell from the railway station at Southminster. Which Rail Routes ? What this news story does not mention is … Continue reading Radioactive Toshing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}