Articles tagged ‘Sellafield’

Nuclear giveaway in the Irish Sea

By Seán | November 19th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

So I’m a little squeamish when it comes to matters of things nuclear.
I may have mentioned this in a previous post about Athlone being threatened by nuclear fallout or when Sellafield, the nuclear power plant across the Irish sea, sprung a leak recently.
Well, the Irish green party (the inherent redundancy in those words [...]

 

Radiation leak

By Seán | October 17th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Oh no, this is not good.
Okay, so I was raised in the states during the cold war. My fourth grade teacher read us Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes in class. Paperbacks like After the Bomb were on the shelves and discussion on nuclear weapons, nuclear power and nuclear war seemed to always be in [...]

 

Athlone threatened by nuclear fallout

By Seán | October 13th, 2006 | Add a Comment »

Ireland has a number of power plants. Despite what you may have heard, they are not run on donkey poo, but on turf.
Good aul turf! Guaranteed to keep Ireland in electric juice for the next, oh, 10 years!!
Just across the sea though, our neighours in the UK have a lovely nuclear power plant [...]