Radiation Free Lakeland have just sent off this 'submission' (how we hate that word) to the Welsh Affairs Committee. We urge others to write opposing plans for new nuclear in Wales (or anywhere!). The "high burn" waste from new build would be many times hotter than from existing nuclear plants. Please feel free to …
Month: February 2016
Nuclear wastes will outlast the repositories by thousands of years!
Temple of Doom: How do we warn the future about nuclear waste?, Triple J Hack, by James Purtill, 19 Feb 16 “…….This week the South Australian Royal Commission released “tentative findings” recommending the state take more than 100 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste and store it in the desert for hundreds of thousands of years…….
The report notes that the used fuel of nuclear power plants requires isolation from the environment “for many hundreds of thousands of years” and that many countries, including Finland, France, Hungary and South Africa, have developed purpose-built waste repositories.This is true, but it’s worth pointing out none of these already built repositories are for the final disposal of nuclear fuel. They are either for low to intermediate level waste, which needs to be isolated for several hundred years, or they are temporary, interim solutions to the problem of finding a final resting place that will…
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‘Trident Town’ Letter in today’s Daily Mail
Letter in the Daily Mail last May…
Trident Town
Where in the world would a school be run by an arms manufacturer? China? Russia? Syria? Or…
Barrow in in Furness, Cumbria?
BAE builds nuclear submarines in Barrow, where, we are told reassuringly, radioactive emissions from the dockyard are masked by
the greater emissions from Sellafield, just across the Duddon Estuary.
Not content with poisoning us, the nuclear weapons industry wants to poison children’s minds too.
Because the Government is putting our money into Trident and New Nuclear Build, Councils and Education Authorities are cash-strapped and abdicating responsibility to BAE. There is something nasty happening here in ‘Trident Town’ but no one is shouting about it.
Cover-up of missing, presumed dead, Fukuhsima nuclear plant workers
Fukushima deaths covered up while here in Cumbria the industry blames “population mixing” for “excess” leukemias. If the industry has its way there will be :
A. population mixing with the influx of thousands of temporary workers and B. accumulating routine and accidental emissions from Moorside ….
Take your pick!!
4,000 Missing TEPCO Nuclear Plant Workers – Presumed To Be Dead, Fukushima Radiation Caused Death Toll Is Rising Fast http://agreenroad.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/200-or-more-missing-tepco-nuclear-plant.html
PRO NUCLEAR PROMOTERS AND THEIR MASS MEDIA SHILLS KEEP ON REPEATING THE PR PROPAGANDA THAT NO ONE DIED DUE TO FUKUSHIMA AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENED
The standard and official declaration one hears constantly from the mass media and the pro nuclear apologists, is that no one died due to Fukushima radiation, and no one will ever die from it. But how much reality is there to this statement, as opposed to a fairy tale wish?
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Let Germany Keep Its High Level Nuclear Balls, Along with its WC Golden Ball!
Having heard on the news how much Merkel has always loved ball – we suggest that she keep her millions of high level nuclear waste balls, in their pristine golden storage containers, to go with the World Cup Golden Ball, instead of dumping on the USA (or other countries).
Germany lifts the 2014 FIFA World Cup, CC-BY-3.0-br, Agência Brasil
Germany can’t keep the good ball and dump their commercial radioactive waste balls from their failed Pebble Bed Nuclear Technology on others! It’s so wrong!
World Cup Golden Ball in “Containment”
Photo by Warrenski via Flickr, but cropped: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
German Nuclear Balls in Golden Containment
German High Level Nuclear Waste Balls from Failed Pebble Bed Commercial Reactors
The German and the US governments can continue to lie until they are blue in the face (If only they would!), and say that these were research reactors, but these were commercial reactors…
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Nuclear Trail of Tears: Swiss-German Plutonium Believed to Have Just Been Dumped on South Carolina; More on Its Way – Object Until March 11th, 11.59 pm EST
Cumbria plays a Nasty part in the Nuclear Trail of Tears…shame on those promoting the industry as “safe and green” and shame on those whose silence makes them complicit.
“A Journey of Injustice
Remember and commemorate the survival of the Cherokee people, forcefully removed from their homelands…” http://www.nps.gov/trte/index.htm They were forced westward to make room for European and Other Nuclear Waste?
How the US Handles Its Plutonium And Other Transuranic Waste (WIPP in 2014)
German Nuclear Waste (Spent Nuclear Fuel) on the Way – Until March 11th to Object: Comment deadline is March 11: “Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.: Acceptance and Disposition of Spent Nuclear Fuel“. http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOE_FRDOC_0001-3020 (Can be anonymous.) See draft EA: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/01/f28/Draft%20DOE%20EA%201977_FOR%20PUBLIC.pdf
US NPS Map showing that South Carolina was Cherokee and they were gradually forced westward.
Click to access Official-Map-Guide-brochure-2012_interp.pdf
When will Europe and the rest of world stop seeing the US as its dumping ground – first of unwanted people and now of its unwanted radioactive waste? What sense does it have to steal a land from the Natives only to…
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Cover up! Voices of the Spied On, UK – Pitchford Spy Inquiry
Theresa May has pulled her weight and been excluding as many people as she can (including the WHOLE of Scotland) to undermine the forthcoming Pitchford Inquiry into extremely dodgy undercover surveillance and undermining of genuine campaigns and campaigners.
Kate Wilson is an environmental and social justice activist who was deceived into a long-term relationship by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. This, her first UK public talk on the subject, came five days after she won a gruelling four year legal battle to have the Metropolitan Police held accountable for Kennedy’s abuse.
21st February 2016
Source and link to further information ; http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2016/02/21/video-voices-of-the-spied-on/
Other source of information ; https://netpol.org/
On 21 January we held a Voices of the Spied On public meeting, and videos of the four panellists’ speeches are now on our Youtube channel.
Janet Alder has been a tireless campaigner for justice for her brother Christopher who was killed by Humberside police in 1998. Police admit repeatedly putting her under surveillance, yet she has been denied ‘core participant’ status at the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing.
Stafford Scott has been a key figure in numerous black community…
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International Nuclear Waste Expert Visits Contaminated Areas In St. Louis
News from the US ….meanwhile here in Cumbria #DriggLocktheGate #StopMoorside #StopNuclear
Crowd attending at the STLCC-Wildwood symposium “The Atoms Next Door” held February 20.
By Holly Shanks
“I toured the situation yesterday and my hair nearly fell out,” Dr. Helen Caldicott said. “I’ve never seen anything so goddamn dangerous.”
The internationally renowned authority on the medical dangers of nuclear waste did not sugarcoat her thoughts after visiting several contamination points, like Westlake Landfill and Coldwater Creek in North St. Louis County.
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No Legitimacy, No Principle in Japan’s Nuclear Victim Support Policy
By Toshinori Shishido
In July 2015, the Fukushima prefectural government announced its plan to terminate housing assistance for nuclear evacuees who fled areas outside of the restricted zone at the end of March 2017. It has absolutely no intention to change this policy as of this moment in February 2016.
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If every person in Barrow was given £1000000…
The cost to the public purse would be tens of £billions less than Trident?
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