Effect Of March Water Release At Sellafield "Negligible" Says ONR

Britain's Office of Nuclear Regulation said this week that the release of water at the Sellafield site on March 1 of this year during extremely cold weather included as much as 680 cubic meters (more than 24,000 cubic feet) of water. But the regulator said the estimate of the amount water that became contaminated before it was cleaned up was conservative, even while the effect on the environment was "negligible."(read more)