2019 - “Campaigning against nuclear is an odd use of time and effort” This year we have wasted a whole lot of time! Thank you to all who have contributed either actively to our campaigns or with donations . All of which goes directly to campaigning for a world free from the civil/military nuclear vampire …
“Falling snow danced like electrons…” from Only a Winter’s Tale, a book in the ongoing Wastwater Chronicles
Atomic Kittens…Questions to Sellafield. Thanks to Mining Awareness for flagging this up.
Sellafield is a British nuclear (waste) site in Cumbria, similar to Hanford and Savannah River Nuclear Sites in the United States.
“Dear Sellafield – To Whom it May Concern
Hope you have had a good Christmas!
I would like to ask the following questions on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland
The questions relate to the rehoming in 2019 of cats from the Sellafield site
1. Why weren’t the cats rehomed ‘in-house’ with Sellafield staff? (this would have allowed some control of rehoming ie not with young families and allowed ongoing monitoring of the cat and host’s health)
2. What methods were used to ensure the cats sent out to animal charities were ‘safe’ from radioactive contamination? (Alpha emitters cannot be detected even from a small distance. If a cat should have eaten prey from an area contaminated with alpha particles the radiation monitor would not pick this up –…
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” If you closed down the UK economy for a year, you would not have saved as much carbon emissions as the Woodhouse Colliery will, if allowed to open, emit over its lifetime.” Just one of the reasons this coal mine must be stopped. It is also waaaaay too close to Sellafield.
Hope you all had a jolly good Christmas with friends and family.
Just had to share this with you…
Here is an extract from the excellent article in the Independent a few days ago from Donnachadh McCarthy.
“The Queen’s Speech boasted about how the government was phasing out coal-fired power stations by 2025. This is genuinely positive, as coal is the highest source of carbon emissions in the energy industry. However, the speech made no mention of the fact that Johnson’s government is also giving the go-ahead to one of the biggest new coal mines in Europe, the Woodhouse Colliery in Cumbria. Johnson is beginning to resemble Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull who, despite his country being in flames, backs the new Adani coal mine. If you closed down the UK economy for a year, you would not have saved as much carbon emissions as the Woodhouse Colliery will, if…
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“We Three Black Guillemots of St Bees, Thank You, for Keeping Coal Deep Under the Seas”. #KeepCumbrianCoalintheHole #Sellafield #Climate
Dear Friends,
Here is a Christmas Card from some of the beautiful and increasingly rare birds to be found at the area under threat from the first deep coal mine in the UK in decades.
“We Three Black Guillemots
Of St Bees, Thank You, for Keeping
Coal Deep Under the Seas.”
The only breeding place left in England of the Black Guillemot is St Bees, the area directly under threat.
“St Bees Head supports northwest England’s only cliff-nesting seabird colony, which is situated between Whitehaven and St. Bees in west Cumbria. Three viewing points give you superb views of the colony and on a clear day you can see the Isle of Man across the sea.” RSPB
Thank You to everyone for generously donating
Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole!
With All Best Wishes for a Safe, Peaceful Christmas
Marianne
on behalf of Keep…
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Shepherd – from Only a Winter’s Tale (Wastwater Chronicles)
WOOF!!! from Only a Winter’s Tale – (Wastwater Chronicles)
Only a Winter’s Tale…
… Some say the Herdwick were here a long time before…same time as the Norse gods like Loki
In the US ..but we can comment and it has implications for the UK…the only safe reactor is NO reactor ! Thanks to Mining Awareness blog for this….
Comment Now! https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=NRC-2019-0180-0003 Deadline Dec 19 2019, at 11:59 PM ET
ID: NRC-2019-0180-0003
NuScale nuclear claims that the old rules for calculating embrittlement of nuclear reactor pressure vessels are outdated and they want to replace them with new rules. They say that the old rules are too conservative, and they want to relax the rules. However, the original rules were based on basic science. Furthermore, NuScale reactor pressure vessels are apparently more at risk than regular nuclear reactors for sudden catastrophic pressure vessel failure, and thus catastrophic nuclear disaster.
According to a study commissioned by the US DOE, NuScale, and similar designs, have thinner nuclear reactor pressure vessel shells, but “significant radiation damage occurs through a greater fraction of wall thickness“. Thus, they suffer from more embrittlement and therefore would be more subject to sudden through wall cracking and pressure vessel failure.
And, yet, Thomas A. Bergman…
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Only a Winter’s Tale : “Shipwreck” from the ongoing Wastwater Chronicles
Breaking the ice “ready for a drink”
Amazing, the Herdwick are supposed to have come from a Spanish shipwreck..
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