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Radioactive Pizza travels from Italy to Cambria
A radioactive “pizza” which was once delivered to the Italian embassy has made its way home to west Cumbria.
Radioactive pizza photo
The ‘Pizza Cumbriana’
The so-called Pizza Cumbriana was created eight years ago by Core (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment), to highlight their concerns about plans by Italy to ship more irradiated (spent) fuel to Sellafield for reprocessing.
The concerns included pollution, health risks and plutonium and nuclear waste stockpiles in the UK.
To illustrate the environmental damage caused by such trade, Core presented the embassy with a unique West Cumbrian “pizza”, complete with a topping of mud and seaweed collected from a public footpath crossing the River Esk estuary.
An analysis of the material by the University of Manchester had shown the topping to contain levels of radioactivity that would be illegal in Italy and which, in the UK, would classify it as Low Level Waste (LLW).
The condemned pizza was swiftly removed by the Environment Agency and has languished ever since with other LLW at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Didcot, Oxford. Now it has been finally transported by road to its rightful resting place to the Low Level Waste disposal facility at Drigg.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/radioactive-pizza-returns-to-cumbria-for-disposal-1.1052943?referrerPath=/news_round-up_1_50001
Radioactive pizza photo
The ‘Pizza Cumbriana’
The so-called Pizza Cumbriana was created eight years ago by Core (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment), to highlight their concerns about plans by Italy to ship more irradiated (spent) fuel to Sellafield for reprocessing.
The concerns included pollution, health risks and plutonium and nuclear waste stockpiles in the UK.
To illustrate the environmental damage caused by such trade, Core presented the embassy with a unique West Cumbrian “pizza”, complete with a topping of mud and seaweed collected from a public footpath crossing the River Esk estuary.
An analysis of the material by the University of Manchester had shown the topping to contain levels of radioactivity that would be illegal in Italy and which, in the UK, would classify it as Low Level Waste (LLW).
The condemned pizza was swiftly removed by the Environment Agency and has languished ever since with other LLW at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Didcot, Oxford. Now it has been finally transported by road to its rightful resting place to the Low Level Waste disposal facility at Drigg.
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/radioactive-pizza-returns-to-cumbria-for-disposal-1.1052943?referrerPath=/news_round-up_1_50001
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