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I’m Sorry? Sellafield Are Using a What Now?
I can’t see any potential for disaster there at all
“A robotic dog is to help clear radioactive waste from a nuclear site.
Sellafield Ltd said operators had used the robot “safely and securely” in a trial and it had “huge potential” for tasks including remote inspections, data gathering and clean-up work.
The Sellafield site in Cumbria is the UK’s most complex and challenging nuclear site with highly hazardous materials stored there from across the UK.”
- Robot dog to assist in Sellafield nuclear plant clean up — BBC News
This isn’t going to be a long piece. I just want to say, I’m frankly terrified by this development.
I’ve always, since my early teens, been actively anti nuclear power — despite the many speeches levelled my way in the attempt to persuade me otherwise, particularly in more recent years, when people have told me repeatedly that nuclear is “cleaner” and “safer” now.
Yeah, ok, whatever you say. (Can you feel that sarcasm?)
I think what many people actually mean, is that it’s cleaner and safer than:
a). It used to be
b). Fossil fuels
