On April 21st this year, Bellona and another Norwegian NGO, Lofoten mot Sellafield, acting in cooperation with BNFL, arranged a conference at Sellafield.ДЄt the conference, Bellona concluded that it would be feasible to halt the Tc-99 discharges for one year without violating the existing British regulations that set schedules and levels of annual Tc-99 discharges from Sellafield, buying time to complete testing of the new liquid radioactive waste treatment facility. Until this spring, the contents of the tank-which were cleansed of most toxic subtances but Tc-99-were being slowly dumped by portions into the Irish Sea three times a year, with the goal of emptying the tank completely by 2007.Дischarge Moratorium Agreement Reached in June SellafieldвЂ™s liquid radioactive waste is stored in an onshore holding tank. The Bellona Foundation has been steadily applying pressure on British nuclear authorities to test a treatment method that separates Tc-99 from SellafieldвЂ™s old liquid waste using a chemical called tetraphenylphosphonium bromide, or TPP.

Tc-99 has also been measured in the Barents Sea as far north as the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The discharges in recent years have led to a dramatic increase of Tc-99 among Norwegian coastal sea products such as lobster and seaweed. The dumping of technetium 99, or Tc-99, from SellafieldвЂ™s nuclear reprocessing plant has caused alarm and outrage among environmentalists in Norway.

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