{"id":959,"date":"2019-06-08T05:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T05:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=959"},"modified":"2019-06-09T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T06:06:40","slug":"telling-the-real-tail-about-tailings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Telling the Real Tail About Tailings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>A\nNew Plant at Capenhurst.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Having spent almost One Billion pounds, and over four years late to complete, the new URENCO tailings plant at Capenhurst is opening this month.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\nplant will convert the highly dangerous Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride\n[ Hex ] stored at the plant in to Uranium Oxide. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Depleted Uranium Hex is a highly toxic radioactive substance, which is corrosive to most metals, and should never be exposed to water. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\nis estimated that the new plant will operate until 2052.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Past\nMistakes <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\ndepleted Uranium Hex at the Capenhurst plant was created as a part of\nthe Uranium enrichment process, which is still being used to create\nmore nukiller fuel rods. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In turn these fuel rods becomes highly radioactive nukiller waste, which adds to the existing radioactive problems at both Sellafield and Drigg.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There\nis just no need to produce energy this way.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Future\nMistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>While the Capenhurst URENCO uranium enrichment plant is still in operation, it will continue contributing towards the making of yet more nukiller fuel, and thus much more highly radioactive waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Our\ncontinuing Demand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We call for the closure of all uranium enrichment plants, <\/strong> <strong>and an end to the nukiller power industry.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Plant at Capenhurst. Having spent almost One Billion pounds, and over four years late to complete, the new URENCO tailings plant at Capenhurst is opening this month. The plant will convert the highly dangerous Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride [ Hex ] stored at the plant in to Uranium Oxide. Depleted Uranium Hex is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=959\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telling the Real Tail About Tailings<\/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-959","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\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}