A Letter to EDF and the Office for Nuclear Regulation on Hunterston B and the cracked graphite. Chernobyl Could Never Happen Here ? Hi Simone and all at EDF and ONR Thank you for putting back the restart date of Reactor 4 to the 5th August from the 22nd July. This has made Scotland a …
Month: July 2019
Nuclear Laundry Asks for Retrospective Planning
Following our investigations the Energy Coast Laundry which was granted a radioactive substances permit by the Environment Agency has been exposed as having had no planning permission from Allerdale Borough Council This was vehemently denied by Allerdale Borough Council " Chiefs at the borough council have already insisted there is “no evidence” that the operation …
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Politicians Virtue Signalling over Cumbrian Coal Mine.. while back in 2017 they were rooting tooting for it
A personal view from Marianne….
The recent video from Cumbria for Sustainability made me do a double take. Not one of the politicians on the panel had the decency to tell the truth about their role in the unanimous approval by Cumbrian planners for the Cumbrian Coal Mine. Not one of the eloquent and opinion forming folk on the panel were at the planning meeting to oppose the mine. Why? Well read on…
In 2017 ALL the parties in Copeland enthusiastically stated their support for the coal mine at the Whitehaven Election Hustings. Most shocking for me that night was the Green Party support, I had gone along with a friend to support the Green Party at the Hustings. It was this Green Party support along with the gushing support from all other parties in Copeland that made it nearly impossible for the only group formed as a result of that night, Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole, to gain momentum or even be listened to.
A personal view from Marianne….
The recent video from Cumbria for Sustainability made me do a double take. Not one of the politicians on the panel had the decency to tell the truth about their role in the unanimous approval by Cumbrian planners for the Cumbrian Coal Mine. Not one of the eloquent and opinion forming folk on the panel were at the planning meeting to oppose the mine. Why? Well read on…
In 2017 ALL the parties in Copeland enthusiastically stated their support for the coal mine at the Whitehaven Election Hustings. Most shocking for me that night was the Green Party support, I had gone along with a friend to support the Green Party at the Hustings. It was this Green Party support along with the gushing support from all other parties in Copeland that made it nearly impossible for the only group formed as a result…
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Chernobyl Couldn’t Happen Here!? Think Again.
The excellent series provoked questions and the answer given by our nuclear industry and regulators is that "Chernobyl Couldn't Happen Here". Well maybe not the exact set of circumstances. But the combination of inevitable human error and the complex, unforgiving nature of nuclear power means that the variables are infinite but the results of …
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“Implementing Geological Disposal” ? – NO THANKS!!!
"Implementing Geological Disposal"- the push for geological disposal is all about the plan to build more nuclear reactors, more plutonium and tritium for the military and has nothing whatsoever to do with protecting future generations from radioactive wastes . Radioactive wastes have the potential to make this planet uninhabitable for eons to come and are …
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The Momentum Grows to Stop the Coal Mine!
The Momentum Grows to Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole
The momentum grows to stop the coal mine and the more that folk find out about this plan the more determined they are to oppose as evidenced by the protest yesterday organised by a Whitehaven lass and quite a few Whitehaven folk taking part including those whose lives would be directly blighted by this plan.
Good coverage from ITV Border but still the same old mantra repeated that this is coking coal..so what! The enormous amount of ‘middlings coal’ also to be mined is cynically dismissed by West Cumbria Mining as a “by product.” But middlings and coking coal will emit both methane and co2 in their mining and in their use. There is no need for this mine either here or overseas there is no shortage of coking coal and certainly no need to open a new mine.
The risks of earthquake and subsidence of the sea bed in…
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Cracked Old Reactors in Scotland and Insane Rubber Stamps from the Regulators Puts Us All In the Way of Nuclear Catastrophe
Below is a letter to EDF and the Office for Nuclear Regulation - correspondence has been ongoing since EDF put in an application to the ONR to increase the crack limit on Hunterston's graphite cores to 700. Meanwhile SScotland is producing so much wind energy it could power two Scotlands. So why on earth …
Toxic Culture at Sellafield Nuclear Plant: We Need the Truth by Sellafield Whistleblower – Alison McDermott
A number of folk from Radiation Free Lakeland nave already contributed to this. Lets help Alison expose the toxic culture at Sellafield. No less.than the safety of our world is at stake.
The following is a CrowdJustice plea for donations. I have personally donated to this as one of Radiation Free Lakeland’s first founders Duncan Ball was one such employee of Sellafield who was forced out of his job and jailed for trying to blow the whistle on the toxic culture at Sellafield.
This is what Alison says on the CrowdJustice page. If you can donate – please do, if you cannot then please share as the more people know about this then we are likely to be safer and see another day.
Toxic Culture at Sellafield Nuclear Plant: We Need the Truth
by Sellafield Whistleblower – Alison McDermott
Whistleblowing Lawyers: Leigh Day United Kingdom
Sellafield Whistleblower – Alison McDermott
Case Owner
I have spent most of my career championing equality and fairness in the workplace. I blew the whistle because I believed serious issues at a nuclear plant were not being…
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Come Along – Radioactive Waste Trains Charity Open Day- Saturday 20th July
This Saturday – Nuclear Waste Continues to Arrive at Sellafield – Come and Join us in Showing our Resistance to this Dangerous Cargo at the Greenwashing “Charity Open Day’
This Saturday 10.30 till the afternoon – Join us in opposing the continued radioactive cargo on our railways. –
The nuclear waste continues to arrive at Sellafield by the week -Enough is Enough
We will be outside the Kingmoor depot, Carlisle on Saturday 20th July (times tbc) handing out leaflets and showing our opposition to this deadly cargo which is given a thick, choking veneer of respectability with this DRS Charity Open Day
Created in 1994 by British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (now the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) to take over British Rail’s handling of nuclear material. DRS has since diversified into other freight operations including food. This diversification serves to take the focus away from the main purpose which is the transport of nuclear materials (the only publicly owned railway we are allowed to have is that bearing nuclear freight!)
Another shrewd display of sleight of hand to shroud this diabolic…
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Demand that the ‘N’ Clause is included in Climate Emergency Plan
Dear Friends, “In response to the climate emergency Lancaster City Council should embrace the local energy revolution, not old, dangerous, centralised, redundant nuclear technology.” Edinburgh Energy and Environment Consultancy Radiation Free Lakeland have been watching with increasing frustration not to mention growing horror as climate emergency resolutions are adopted by councils without any clause or …
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