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#521
General / Tree plan to clean up Dounreay!
09 September, 2003, 06:42:49 PM
Tree plan to clean up Dounreay!
 
Tests are being carried out at the Dounreay nuclear plant on willow trees in the hope could they help remove radioactivity from soil around the site of Scotland's more recent surrender to pessimisim.

The three-year trial is part a ?4bn clean-up of the Caithness tooth lover, which is expected to take about 50 years to complete about the same length of time it take brain Bolland todraw a Dredd story.

Willow has already been grown in other countries to help remove contamination, including radioactivity, from soil and David Bowie's underpants.

Dounreay's operators, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (KIMOTA), are also conducting trials with three different species, humans, rabbits and turtles.

A spokesman said that 37 cuttings were being cultivated in 13 pots, half in low level contaminated soil, half in clean soil scraped from the hoofs of local sheep and half in soil taken especially from Bondi Beach.
The trial has just completed its first season ( 13 episodes) and leaves from the trees are being sent to the Fox Kids for analysis by UKAEA scientists.
 
They will look at the advert growth rates and take-up of radioactivity and examine any special powers that develope in the plants.

Doug McAlister, of Dounreay's environmental programmes department, staggered to his feet burped and slurred: "There is a long history of plants in this world, and the Sloe juniper is one of our greatest,  being used for in-situ remediation of soil and gin through contaminant removal, containment or degradation."

It is hoped that if the willows manage to soak up radioactivity the costly and time-consuming process of excavating contaminated ground for decontamination will be reduced.The willows will then be fed to unsuspecting school children cloned from Geoge W Bush in an attempt to bred a race of Unbermen.

The phytoremediation system has been in operation in the US and the cheese-eating French have also conducted trials using a mushrooms sautee and monkeys.

If successful the scheme will be used to remove historical facts from the site, mainly related to seepage from the now discredited H. Simpson drainage system.

The remaining trees will eventually be disposed of as a form of glowing bark chipping to be used in the next series of Ground Force Night Gardens.



 

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3090408.stm" target="_blank">Els to the rescue

#522
Off Topic / Relief at the Dounreay hutch!
05 September, 2003, 02:54:48 AM
Hurrah! Dounreay rabbits get all-clear!
 
 
Giant Rabbits who had burrowed into radioactive waste pits  at Dounreay have been ruled free from radioactivity following tests by the Food Standards Agency Scotland (FSAS).
A probe was carried out after the Ninja Bunnies were found to have burrowed into low-level waste pits at the nuclear plant in Caithness.

The Scottish Environment Protection Team In Caithness (Septic) had served them with a light wine sauce and an enforcement notice to Dounreay managers ordering them to stop the rabbits gaining access, unfortunately the rabbits were unable to read notice.

There was concern that the rabbits could be contaminated with radioactivity and people who trapped and ate them locally would be in danger, but if people trapped them and took them home and cooked them were thought to be at less risk.

But after taking samples from 10 rabbits, FSAS experts have confirmed they do not contain nuclear waste from the pits but only the usual stuff from the beach.

Traces of plutonium, uranium and americium were found in the bunnies but they were said to be from permitted Dounreay discharges, nuclear weapon tests the rabbits had ben conducting, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia where the rabbits were first in and last out.

Mick Hucknell has stated he will do a charity record expressing his love for these animals, including his greatest hits 'Holding back the ears' and 'Bunnies too tight to mention'.

Proudhuff stagges to his feet, checks Harvey is okay then collapses in a fug of toxic waste.

Our reporter made his excuses and left.

 

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3078094.stm" target="_blank">Jings! Crivvens! BBC Scotland's new cookery show?

#523
Prog / Prog 1356
29 August, 2003, 10:58:28 PM
nope, haven't got mine yet, but I've always wanted to to start one of these...

Looking forward to the further advetures of the Lego KKK stormtroopers.
Will someone cut the string on the Tie Bomber?
Will the figure hanging fi the dandly bit of the Walker ever get what he wants?
Could you use Jabba the hut as a jewel case ?
What about the walking cooker from Wallace and Gromit, how did that get in there?

Roll on Monday!!

Jumpin the shark, sorry, gun Huff
#524
Off Topic / One for the Tank boys only...
13 August, 2003, 06:52:52 PM
  Supergun test under fire over toxic fears
Holyrood asked to block US trials in Kirkcudbright

IAN BRUCE

THE Scottish parliament is to be asked to block trials of a revolutionary new American "supergun" to be carried out in secrecy at a Scots firing range.

The Pentagon recently let slip that the only place in the world it could probably test it at full power was Kirkcudbright despite there being vast areas of test firing ranges in the US.

Local people fear they could become victims of a toxic aftermath. The concern is that radioactive depleted uranium will be involved with the weapon, which has been under secret tests in the US for almost 30 years.

An emergency motion for the restart of the parliamentary sitting on September 1 has called on Jack McConnell, the first minister, to apply pressure on the Ministry of Defence to suspend the planned trials at the Dundrennan firing range until safety issues can be addressed.

The motion has been tabled by Chris Ballance, of the Greens, and Angus Robertson, SNP foreign affairs spokesman, has also promised to raise the trials at Westminster in the first defence debate.

The fact the weapon was to be tested in Scotland only leaked out when it was mentioned by the Pentagon's leading military scientist, Mike Andrews, to delegates at a recent defence conference in Washington. He told them the system was ready, but had not yet been used at full power, adding: "Probably the only place in the world we can do that is Kirkcudbright."

The fact that secret US tests were to be carried out on Scottish soil has never been announced or admitted by the MoD, raising fears that there may be some hidden safety or environmental reason for not conducting them on the 25,000 square kilometres of firing ranges available to the US military in their own country.

Mrs Kathleen Glass, a leading campaigner on the local community council, said: "We have heard rumours, but no definite information on US gun tests. Someone should be telling us what's going on."

Alasdair Morgan, the SNP MSP for the south of Scotland, said: ''It's bizarre that Dundrennan should be chosen unless there's something to hide. It's not as if the US has a shortage of test sites. The MoD must come clean on this now."

The MoD failed to answer inquiries on the issue despite repeated calls to its policy unit over the last two days.

The tests are understood to involve firing an experimental electro-magnetic gun (EMG) which can launch a shell at 7500-mph and destroy a tank more than five miles away.

The EMG, also known as a "rail gun", has been under secret development by the US for almost 30 years, with the UK acting as a junior partner. The gun uses magnetic coils to create a pulse of energy which can hurl a projectile at more than five times the top speed of Concorde, or more than two miles per second.

BAe Systems, the UK's biggest defence company, is involved in its development.

The fear is that the slugs would have to be made of radioactive depleted uranium to survive and still remain solid enough to smash through the armour of a modern tank.

Residents near the Dundrennan range have already fought a long campaign against MoD test-firing of conventional DU tank rounds which are claimed to have created radioactive pollution in the Solway Firth. It is feared they can cause cancer.

The Ministry has conducted its own tests and given the area a clean bill of health, but only one of the 6900 DU rounds fired there since the 1980s has ever been recovered.

Devastating weapon which uses no explosive will transform tank warfare

-Aug 13th

 
#525
Off Topic / Glasgow...
11 August, 2003, 10:57:42 PM
Yes, a wee trip to Weegieland to look at Whistlers paintings at the Uni last Saturday,and dropped into a wee comix shop in the Byres Road (sp) FUTURESHOCK, more GN that FP and a wierd choice in Radio  (Aussie Christain) but a load of Titan books. Anyone else go there?


Huffy
#526
Now that's got to be a good thing?

 if they are newbies, not just old hands being lazy or hush, don't say that name you'll start 'em off again

Staffnurse Effie Huffie
#527
Off Topic / Dounreay up on a charge!
08 August, 2003, 09:44:43 PM
Must be true...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2758547.stm">
#528
Off Topic / Football and comic
08 August, 2003, 06:18:34 PM
pre-emptive retaliation... a thread for mindless chatter aboot boys and their balls..

Public Service Provider Huff
#529
Off Topic / Scottish Munce?
05 August, 2003, 05:44:08 PM
Munce for the masses!! maybe we should ship this to MC1?

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3124561.stm" target="_blank">The new Scottish Munce

#531
General / Mill's source?
31 July, 2003, 09:57:43 PM
SPOILERS] Re: Prog 1351 posted by dubhthach on 31 Jul 03 at 15:43
In reply to [SPOILERS] Prog 1351 posted by paulvonscott on 28 Jul 03 at 09:19

Funny thing i find about Slaine and Pat Mills writing, is that most of it is lifted out of "Leabar na Gabhla na h?ireann" (Book of Invasions of Ireland ) which dates to the 12th century.
This current story arc. is based on the final invasion as chronicled in Leabhar na Gabhala, that of the Sons of Mile (whose wife was Scota). The sons of Mile are the Irish race!
#532
Suggestions / Civil War in the Meg?
31 July, 2003, 07:23:19 PM
An Idea fi another thread, but if there was to be a Civil War ( oxymoron?) in the Meg, who would you like to see it between? and would the Judges be split?

IE if clones were deemed mutants
Clones vs Humans?
or
economics: Norts vs Southers?

internal Judge power struggle with Citz taking sides?


Huffy B-)

#533
General / That West wall...
28 July, 2003, 09:04:53 PM
Anyone know? Where does the WestWall stop being the WestWall and start being the North Wall or South wall or does it peter out into a Rad pit?

Has the Westwall rebuilding finished?
What amount of the Meg is still in ruin?
Whats going on in 'The Pit' these days, is it still isolated?
Is Florida still full of the same wrinklies and fun rides?
Whats happen to Cuba?
Why no cajuns?


Huffy


#534
General / is it me?
25 July, 2003, 07:27:04 PM
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#535
Off Topic / The Truth about King Trout
22 July, 2003, 04:39:32 PM
 
 The Truth! King Trout eats his fellow Trout, the Herald reveils all:


Scientists cast protective eye over giant trout
JAMES FREEMAN
SCIENTISTS have begun unravelling the secrets of a mysterious cannibal fish that lives in Scotland's deepest lochs.

The giant ferox trout grows quickly and lives for decades by eating its smaller cousins. Researchers are now studying its mysteries in an attempt to safeguard its future.

The ferox was once thought to be a separate species but it has been found to be genetically identical to ordinary brown trout. Biologists are now searching for the trigger which causes it to switch from a normal diet of underwater beatles, snails, and insects to eating its own kind and shoals of arctic char which inhabit the depths of many lochs.

 

Link: http://www.theherald.co.uk" target="_blank">Scientists cast protective eye over giant trout

#536
Suggestions / Zip Nolan's genes?
16 July, 2003, 06:11:02 PM
Zip Nolan, remember him? a yanquee bike riding lawman who spotted the clues and caught the perps. I remember the joy as a sprog of spotting the clue: smoking chimmey, tyre track etc in the strip.

Is Judge Fargo, and therefore Dredd, a Zip Nolan descendant? Remember the murder of Otto Sump?

if not what about a creating another Judge 'Fly' Nolan who investigates 'cold' cases or the Justice dept's X-files ? after all Zip wasn't too big on using the nightstick and lawgiver approach so he might be stuck on that backwater duty. He could even get help from his sisters.

Huffy B-)

#537
Off Topic / Ola fi Cuba!!
11 July, 2003, 04:10:07 AM
Just a quicky will be back next week, you missed me didnt you...

Proudhuff, who he...
#538
Help! / Wake!
25 June, 2003, 04:53:04 PM
Is it possible to delete that f*cked thread?

sorry Huff B-(
#539
Off Topic / http://www.theherald.co.uk/
25 June, 2003, 04:30:19 PM
For those who haven't seen this, heros' in a half pipe..http://www.theherald.co.uk/email/Ye6wq/21D1/jump.html">
#540
Off Topic / the bearded lady
24 June, 2003, 05:04:39 PM
How was it that the Police couldn't tell that a man dressed as a woman, with facial hair, a hideous dress, FM shoes and no dress sense at all wasn't in the Royal Party?  oh, mmmmmm  ah, seem to have answer me own question...

SaxCoburg, AKA Corner of the Yard.