The View from Ireland

  While the local Cumbrian papers remain schtum and are wondering how best to report on the shocking Sellafield photographs,  the Irish Mirror, not in the pay of Sellafield is free to say it like it is..... "Sellafield Safety Shocker: Nuclear waste abandoned 40 years ago lies in rotting containers open to the elements... Oct 31, 2014 06:00 …

Sellafield: All Trick and No Treat

Sellafield: All Trick and No Treat? (well ...the treats are on you - out of the public purse) http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/29/sellafield-nuclear-radioactive-risk-storage-ponds-fears?CMP=share_btn_tw

Letters to the Austrian Chancellor and other European Leaders – No New Build Subsidies!

Dear Chancellor Faymann, We wrote to you last week supporting your challenge to the EC on state subsidies for new nuclear at Hinkley C. Since then the leaked images of the Sellafield wastes have been published in the Ecologist and have been studied by nuclear expert John Large. "if the ponds drain, the Magnox fuel …

Leaked Sellafield photos reveal “massive radioactive release” threat

Radiation Free Lakeland have been given permission to publish in full the article in The Ecologist by Oliver Tickell and the leaked photographs exposing Sellafield's neglect of decades of nuclear wastes.  For the nuclear industry and government to be colluding to build new nuclear next to this radioactive ticking time bomb is tantamount to state terrorism. …

Nuclear Amnesia “What would Karen Silkwood say?”

http://youtu.be/b54rB64fXY4 Gil Scott-Heron | We Almost Lost Detroit The Fermi I reactor was a breeder located at Lagoona Beach, 30 miles from Detroit. On the 5th October in 1966, high temperatures were measured (700 compared to normal 580¡F) and radiation alarms sounded involving two fuel rod subassemblies. The reactor scrammed and there was indication of fuel melting. …

Kill the Bill – Infrastructure Bill Gives Free Rein to Radioactive and Chemical Polluters

Please send letters to your MP,  your member of the House of Lords,  the press - Get Active ....and Kill the Bill! Please do not rely completely on petitions such as the Greenpeace petition (which we have signed) it focuses on Fracking and leaves Nuclear out of the picture.  Equally do not rely on Radiation Free …

Meanwhile in the US, Grandmothers are found guilty while nuclear poisons us all

http://youtu.be/CFEzbLqiz5k PILGRIM grandmothers found guilty yesterday 10/22/2014. Sentenced to 30 days, suspended, and a year's probation. These women are our prophets, as is, of course, Dr Helen Caldicott, who did testify yesterday (having been previously barred) Here are words from defendant grandmother Diane Turco in court. I wept as I read her gorgeous words and those …

More Nuclear Waste on its way to Sellafield Today

Nuclear waste train at Bridgwater station this morning ....the second one this week  23 Oct 2014 On its way to Sellafield ....coming through your neighbourhood soon ..... Sellafield is bursting at the seams with nuclear waste, but not to worry as there is plenty of sea to dump it into, plenty of air, plenty of soil …

The return of Yucca Mountain?

Yucca Mountain once again being pushed as a geological dump: Nuclear Waste …Stop Making It!

GreenWorld

The tortured history of the Yucca Mountain radioactive waste project took another twist Thursday as the NRC released a key portion of its Safety Evaluation Report (SER) for the project.

Judging from the reaction of the nuclear industry and its backers, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the release of Volume 3 (of five volumes, three of which are not yet completed) meant that the radwaste trains would begin rolling into the mountain this morning. 

In a statement on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s website, Committee chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), a steadfast supporter of all things nuclear, called the report “game-changing,” and said the American public can now have confidence that the repository would be in fact “safe for a million years.”

Not to be outdone, Environment and Energy subcommittee chair John Shimkus (R-IL), like Upton a guy who has ardently backed the nuclear industry no matter what…

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Thorium – pie in the sky to keep the nuclear nightmare going

Ban on uranium mining at Grand Canyon upheld by Arizona court Ruling protects national treasure against the possibility of opening it to 26 new mines and 700 exploration projects. "Developers" will no doubt be challenging this.... until NUCLEAR IS BANNED. Thorium - same old pie in the sky to keep the whole nuclear shebang going... the 3 …