Once upon a time there was a babe in the deep dark forest of the Old Labour woods who stepped out into the upland sunshine of New Labour. The Mad King Blair's "little ray of sunshine" later fell into disgrace for supping too eagerly of the gravy train and the fall was made so much …
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LOW LEVEL RADIATION AND HEALTH CONFERENCE STIRLING COURT HOTEL, STIRLING UNIVERSITY FK9 4A, Scotland JUNE 23-24, 2018 The Low Level Radiation and Health Conference was set up in 1985 by members of the public keen to find out more about these issues and so it is now 30+ years since it started. Since its inception, …
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Yesterday members of Radiation Free Lakeland went to the Preston New Road fracking site to show support for protestors who have been there rain and shine to oppose Cuadrilla's plan to frack the Fylde. In the afternoon we went to Springfields Nuclear Fuels situated at the end of Preston New Road on the country road …
Images: Springfields makes all the UKs nuclear fuel (and overseas too) / Nukiller Waste is Too Much to Bear / Containers of Uranium Hexaflouride stacked up at the Springfields site (Springfields is on the same narrow country road proposed for fracking vehicles to Roseacre wood) NUKILLER WASTES MADE IN PRESTON: TOO MUCH TO BEAR Thursday …
Good information on Dodgy Old Nuclear Reactors ….
While graphite cracking appeared much earlier, the keyway cracks were predicted in 2009 to appear by 2015. But, they were first found at Hunterston B, reactor 4, in 2014. 2009 was the year that the British nuclear power stations were sold to the French government (EDF). (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Energy )
http://www.onr.org.uk/foi/2014/2014020215-ar-53-2009.pdf Experts have been hired to prove that it’s really ok after all! But it’s not! The cause of the Windscale nuclear fire is believed to have been, in part, pushing the safety limits!
French government owned EDF needs to permanently shut down all of its old nuclear reactors in the UK, as well as France. Many, or all, of the UK reactors have cracked graphite bricks which, if they break through, can keep the nuclear reactors from being shut down, leading to meltdown.
The graphite could burn for days, emitting dangerous radioactive materials and further contaminating Europe…
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A walk along the beautiful Lancaster canal this thursday - no one witnessing the beautiful day would be thinking about the crumbling graphite core in the nuclear reactors just 3 miles away. Would they? All this Useless Beauty - was a song by Elvis Costello and it made me think.... what if ... if no …
Sellafield, Coal Mining and Earthquakes – Why Run a Certain Risk?
Excellent letter in last weeks Westmorland Gazette in reply to previous letter dismissing concerns about the coal mine plan. Anita’s letter points out the close proximity of the proposed coal mine to Sellafield and the inconvenient truth that coal mining causes earthquakes. Anita who wrote the letter tells us that the published letter is much edited, nevertheless the main point about proximity to Sellafield comes across load and clear.
Westmorland Gazette Letters April 19th 2018
Coal Mine Poses a Risk
“I dont find the ultimate paragraph of Do you need a gas-guzzler? (Letters, March 29) in which the writer belittles the increased risk of seismic activity caused by coal mines, laughable at all.
Coal mining has been known to cause earthquakes, sinkholes and subsidence in the past.
Already there have been quite a number of earthquakes around the Sellafield area during my lifetime. In fact, Sellafield was built only half…
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Yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of the ongoing Chernobyl disaster. I recieved a letter from Tim Farron MP following questions from Radiation Free Lakeland on the trade from the UK in nuclear materials to the Russian ports of St Petersburg and Moscow. The letter repeats a message from the Foreign Office that 'all is …
Is your community willing to accept chemical and radioactive pollution from nuclear wastes? If not then write and tell the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - BEIS. Boycott their dodgy CONsultation : "Working with Communities; Implementing Geological Disposal" Tell them that you are boycotting their CONsultation, that you are not "willing" to "Implement …
"An RAF Tornado taxis into its hangar after landing at Britain Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, after a Syria strike mission, April 14, 2018. Britain contributed four Tornado fighter jets armed with Storm Shadow cruise missiles to the operation, the UK's Ministry of Defense said." Letter just sent to the PM - …
