{"id":85818,"date":"2017-10-27T12:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ce10e8e8a392b33e01f2a6ddee8d19d5"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:56:57","slug":"press-release-chemical-disposal-update-friday-27-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85818","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Chemical disposal update &#8211; Friday 27 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Work to safely dispose of chemicals at Sellafield has continued this week and will continue over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The disposals will take place during daylight hours and may be audible off-site. We have provided updates directly to staff and stakeholders in the immediate vicinity of the site.<\/p>\n<p>The process that experts from the Army\u2019s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team is using to safely dispose of the chemicals is in line with best practice and chemical disposal regulations.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of the laboratory where the chemicals are being retrieved from, the site will continue to operate as normal over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Key facts<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The chemicals are in sealed glass bottles of good condition.<\/li>\n<li>The chemicals are being disposed of appropriately.<\/li>\n<li>The materials involved are solvents which are widely used in industry.<\/li>\n<li>The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team deal with hundreds of these issues every year, recovering chemicals from science laboratories in places like schools, universities and hospitals.<\/li>\n<li>Because this is happening on the Sellafield site we exercise extreme caution and leave nothing to chance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on the disposal of chemicals at Sellafield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}