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Sellafield Returns Nuclear Waste to Japan- By:Generalissimo of All Armed Forces Richard Su 1st Tiger Marine Amphibious Intellegence Regiment 642nd Dragonknight Special Armed Forces Division/Task Force 936 (Stealth Squads) 1st and 22nd SAS Special Forces Recon Army/Task Force 628 (Firestorm Squads)- 2nd and 75th Army Rangers Special Ops Recon Army/Task Force 246 (Gryphon Squads) 3rd, 7th and 10th Green Berets Special Ops Army/ Task Force 156 (Predator Squads) 4th, 8th and 11th Delta Force Special Ops Army/Task Forces 716 (Eagle Squads) 5th and 10th Navy SEALS Teams/ Task Forces 2316 and 6015 (Tactical Squads) 6th and 12th Marines Raiders Security Force Army/ Task Forces 001 and 007 (Honor Squads) 9th,14th,15th and 16th Spetsnaz Recon Teams/Task Forces 6,24,15,and 60 (Dragoon Squads) Summary- Sellafield Nuclear Site is sending back to Japan some radioactive waste to which was used in the 1980's and 90's for Japanese reactors and it was sent to the UK as a waste byproduct to which the UK reprocessed. The radioactive waste has been loaded on to a ship specially designed for the flasks which are on the inside of the flask which weighs about 120 tons and will be shipped to Japan later on in the year. Some campaigners have criticised the shipments, saying they are dangerous. (BBC) An anti-nuclear campaigner said, "It is highly irresponsible for the industry to still be sending this kind of material across the world." (BBC) Sellafield has responde by saying that they "Sellafield" are operation safely. There are only two countries that deal with nuclear waste which are France and the United Kingdom. The process involves extracting reusable uranium and plutonium from the fuel, leaving behind a liquid waste. Japan has storage facilities in place already, having received 12 shipments of high level nuclear waste from France in recent years. Over the next decade, high-level waste will also be returned to European countries. (BBC) Sellafield says that this is a profitable move to gain some money because it has been losing some. They haven't revealed the payment details. The whole point of this is to make some room for the new waste arrivals. Sources- BBC News- [] Whitehaven News- [] Similar- The one thing that is similar to both articles is that they say that it will take ten years to finish shipping all of the nuclear waste to go back to Japan. Difference- Whitehaven News gives us just a glimpse of what is being done. BBC gives us a very nice description of what is going to happen with all of the nuclear waste along with a video by one of the reporters from the BBC staff and even has a picture on the article. Opinion- I think that shipping nuclear waste is dangerous yet toxic to people and to the world. When are we going to rid ourselves of this post-war material off the face of the earth? Who will know, decades from now, maybe?