Rivelato: tre tonnellate di uranio sono legalmente scaricate nell’estuario inglese protetto in nove anni
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/revealed-uranium-from-uk-nuclear-fuel-factory-dumped-into-protected-ribble-estuary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
di topotaul
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If this is bad how bad is it?
Damn I’m not even a fan of Starmer, but it feels like the next 4 years is going to be like one of those truth tribunals that countries hold after ousting a corrupt dictator.
> the total dose of radiation from Springfields Fuels was approximately 4% of the dose limit that is set to protect members of the public from radiation
Damn, terrifying
I swear those who gave the go-ahead for this shit should at least have their pensions cancelled.
Seawater contains about three tonnes of uranium per cubic kilometer ([3 micrograms per liter](https://www.epj-n.org/articles/epjn/full_html/2016/01/epjn150059/epjn150059.html)). The river ribble [discharges](https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/data/station/meanflow/71001) about 1 cubic kilometer per year (34.5m^3 per second). So on average the concentration of ‘dumped’ uranium in the river would be about one ninth of that in the sea.