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BBC News - What is nuclear reprocessing?

BBC News Online examines the benefits and disadvantages of the nuclear fuel reprocessing system. Includes a description and graphic of the Sellafield process, and links to related Sellafield news items.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/647981.stm

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Border Television - Windscale 1957 - The Nuclear Winter

The script of a Border Television documentary which described in detail the accident at the Windscale no 1 pile. Includes history of the reason for building the Windscale nuclear facility.

http://www.border-tv.com/wind/wind.htm

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Border Television - Inside Sellafield

The script of a Border Television documentary transmitted on July 29th 1996. The programme examines 25 years of nuclear reprocessing in the UK and asks what future there is for the industry.

http://www.border-tv.com/inside/inside.html

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British Nuclear Fuels

The company's expertise spans fuel manufacture and uranium procurement through to recycling used fuel, transporting radioactive materials, engineering, waste management and decommissioning. Operators of many UK nuclear plants, including the Sellafield reprocessing Plant in Cumbria.

http://www.bnfl.com/

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Children of Plutonium

Article on the high cancer rate in the offspring of Sellafield fathers, by William Keepin, Ph.D.

http://www.nonukes.org/w15cancr.htm

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Crisis deepens over British nuclear reprocessing plant

Article from World Socialist on international alarm over the production and storage of nuclear waste and reprocessed fuel at Sellafield.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/nuc-a03.shtml

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Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment

CORE's campaign remit is to cover all aspects of Sellafield's operations including the radioactive sea and air discharges, the resultant contamination of the local environment, and the health detriment to local communities and wildlife.

http://www.corecumbria.co.uk/

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Greenpeace - Reprocessing

Various articles from the Greenpeace website on reprocessing, including several relating directly to Sellafield.

http://archive.greenpeace.org/~nuclear/reprocess.html

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Guardian Unlimited - Nuclear Reprocessing

Find out how nuclear processing works at the Sellafield THORP plant, with this click-through graphic. [Flash required]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/flash/0,6189,181369,00.html

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Guardian Unlimited - Today's issues - Sellafield

feature on Sellafield in the Guardian, Friday February 18, 2000, with a description of what the plant does, why Sellafield is in the news, and questions why nuclear power is unpopular.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theissues/article/0,6512,184655,00.html

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N-BASE Sellafield Crisis

Reports from various sources commenting on the reports by the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII), published on Friday 18th February 2000 on British Nuclear Fuels and the Sellafield reprocessing plant.

http://www.n-base.org.uk/public/report_links/danming_sellafield.html

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Sellafield Local Liaison Committee

The committee which independently monitors Sellafield. Includes constitution, and minutes of the meetings.

http://www.sllc.co.uk/

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Shut Sellafield

Campaign to close the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in West Cumbria. About the plant, schools section, purpose of the campaign, and information about the Chernobyl accident.

http://www.shutsellafield.com/

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The Alternative Guide to Sellafield

An alternative view to the official one about the 1957 fire, reprocessing, plutonium and other matters at the Sellafield (formerly Windscale) nuclear reprocessing plant in West Cumbria.

http://www.lakestay.co.uk/ast.htm

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Windscale Nuclear Incident

Detailed description of the world's first significant release of radioactive material from a nuclear reactor. This happened on October 7, 1957, at Windscale in Cumberland, [now renamed Sellafield].

http://www.nucleartourist.com/events/windscal.htm

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WISE Women special - The Sellafield Story

Article by Janine Allis-Smith about her son who often played on the beaches near Sellafield, and who at the age of 12, was diagnosed with leukemia.

http://www.antenna.nl/wise/509-10/5009.html

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