{"id":697,"date":"2016-09-22T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=697"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:45:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:45:06","slug":"how-much-depleted-hex-is-at-capenhust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=697","title":{"rendered":"How Much Depleted Hex Is At Capenhust ? ? ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Much Hex ?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Uranium Hexafluoride is highly toxic, radioactive, corrosive to most metals, and reacts violently with water.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the questions we have been asking since the Close Capenhurst Campaign was established is just how much Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride is stored at the URENCO Capenhurst site.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The best answer we have received is ‘ A vast Quantity’,which is also the only way we have been able to describe it.<\/span><\/p>\n

We just don’t know.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although one recent article stated that it is some 60,000 tonnes.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is exactly what we want to know.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. How many containers of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride are stored at the Capenhurst site ?<\/span><\/p>\n

2. What is the total mass of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride which each of the containers at Capenhurst can hold ?<\/span><\/p>\n

3. What is the total mass of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride which is stored at the Capenhurst site ?<\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/p>\n

4. How much of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride will the new tailing plant at Capenhurst be able to process each hour ?<\/span><\/p>\n

We recently submitted these questions to the Office of Nuclear Regulation as a Freedom of Information request.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the response which we received from them: –<\/span><\/p>\n

‘We receive updates (a month in arrears from relevant UK dutyholders) on the amounts of material held on sites that are under our Nuclear Safeguards regime. Whilst we hold some of the data you require, we unfortunately do not receive it in the format that you have requested \u2013 it would take a significant amount of time to interrogate the data, to extract the specific volume of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride and provide the information in the requested format, approximately 60 man hours at a cost of \u00a3900 over and above the \u00a3600 or 3 days\u2019 effort that you are assigned under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

We cannot release the data set in its entirety as it contains Sensitive Nuclear Information, which would<\/i><\/span> need to be redacted\/extracted under section 24 of FOIA, National Security.’<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words<\/span><\/p>\n

They would only be willing to let us have the answer, if we were willing to give them \u00a3900.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ‘fee’ will then be used to redact much of the information from any reply which we might receive.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a> Our response to this is as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n

– 1. That what we asked for relates to a matter of very great public concern, and should be freely available to us all.<\/span><\/p>\n

– 2. That we Do Not intend to pay out any money in order to maintain the secrecy which is an integral part of how the Nukiller Industry operates.<\/span><\/p>\n

&<\/span><\/p>\n

– 3. That we will continue to keep asking the same questions until we get the information which we require.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How Much Hex ? Uranium Hexafluoride is highly toxic, radioactive, corrosive to most metals, and reacts violently with water. One of the questions we have been asking since the Close Capenhurst Campaign was established is just how much Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride is stored at the URENCO Capenhurst site. The best answer we have received is … Continue reading How Much Depleted Hex Is At Capenhust ? ? ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-capenhurst-plant","category-hex","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}