This article is from our dedicated Lakes Against Nuclear Dump campaign website. Image from "The Pit and the Polar Bear." Coal Boss, Mark Kirkbride Welcomed to HM Govnt's Deep Nuclear Dump Planning Dept. Lucrative Govnt contracts guaranteed for Critical National Infrastructure plan of a Geological Nuclear Dump - worth £Billions to business interests Top Tier …
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Biggest Steel Structure in the World https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1121-Txernobylgo_zentral_nuklearrerako_sarkofago_berria-en.svg In the 35th anniversary week of the ongoing Chernobyl disaster Mrs Harrison said in commenting on the Extinction Rebellion protests in London: “It’s why I’m the greatest advocate of nuclear as a real solution producing the essential, reliable baseload power to supplement renewable generation. To give an idea, …
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Living With Chernobyl: Personal stories from the world’s worst nuclear disaster. Presented by Greater Manchester CND, Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK), Nuclear Free Local Authorities, Beyond Nuclear
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:00 BSTThe event features a moderated round table discussion with guests, followed by an audience Q&A.
Guests
Maxine Peake, reading excerpts from Svetlana Alexeivich’s Nobel Prize winning Oral History ‘Chernobyl Prayer / Voices from Chernobyl’. Peake is an English stage, film and television actor known for Dinnerladies, Shameless and Silk. The reading is part of a simultaneous public reading by women around the world.
Kate Brown, Author of ‘Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future’. Brown is a Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Darragh McKeon, Author of the novel ‘All that is Solid Melts into Air’. McKeon is an Irish writer and theatre director based in County Clare, Ireland.
Linda Walker, Executive Director of Chernobyl Children’s Project (UK). Walker’s organisation supports children and young people with cancer or disabilities in Belarus.
In conversation with Linda Pentz Gunter, Beyond Nuclear (US)
Q&A moderated by Jacqui Burke, Greater Manchester & District CND (UK)
This is a Free Event
Chernobyl: The next phase https://www.ebrd.com/news/2021/chernobyl-the-next-phase.htmlBy Axel Reiserer, 23 Apr 2021
At 01:23:40 on 26 April 1986, the failure of a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant inUkraine, then part of the Soviet Union, caused reactor 4 to explode, releasing parts of its radioactive core. It was the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen, with far-reaching political, economic and ecological consequences. Thirty-five years on,Chernobylis still as well-known as it was a generation ago.
Fires broke out, causing the main release of radioactivity into the environment. Wind carried contaminated particles over Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, as well as parts of Scandinavia and wider Europe. The 50,000 inhabitants of the adjacent town of Pripyat were evacuated, never to return.
The accident destroyed reactor 4, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and causing numerous other deaths in weeks and months that…
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Two letters in the Whitehaven News this week dovetail regarding West Cumbria's stressed water supply from boreholes near Sellafield and the planned coal mine near Sellafield. Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink! #KeepCumbrianCoalintheHole
https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/19/coronation-street-spoilers-shock-exit-for-faye-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-14424675/ If only the fictional Coronation St character Faye Windass had worked at Sellafield - she could have got away scot free for hitting someone on the head. In real life this is what you get if you commit an act of violence and work at Sellafield .... "After hearing about the violence — and …
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We are asking for two things. Firstly for the Secretary of State for BEIS Kwasi Kwarteng MP to acknowledge that he has the authority to block new licences for the Cumbrian coal mine and to use that authority to stop the Coal Authority licences and this coal mine dead in its tracks. This would save the public the huge expense of a Public Inquiry. If the Secretary of State for BEIS / the Coal Authority are minded to approve the licences for what now amounts to an amended development then what on earth is the point of the public inquiry founded on the previous licences?
Secondly, to let the public actually have sight of the developer’s new licence applications. If the licences are exactly the same as previously then why cannot we have sight…
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Nuclear safety group Radiation Free Lakeland have asked for and been refused sight of the new conditional coal mine licence applications from West Cumbria Mining to the Coal Authority. The controversial Irish Sea coal mine developers had originally been granted conditional exploration licences eight years ago over the heads of Cumbria County Council and the public, with no public scrutiny at all. These have now lapsed and the developers have applied for new licences.
Radiation Free Lakeland have asked for sight of the licence applications from West Cumbria Mining. The Coal Authority have refused sight of the licence applications based on two clauses in the Freedom of Information Act 2000: Section 43(2) Commercial Interests and Section 44(1)(a) Prohibition by Enactment.
Campaigners say that there is no justification offered by the Coal Authority for the protection of the developers at the expense of public scrutiny…
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The following letters appeared in the Daily Mail following the Royal Biographer, Robert Hardman’s gushing and myopic pro-coal- pro-nuclear article.
One from Cumbria from yours truly and one from a Richard Davies in Lancashire who assumes protestors are “woke” metropolitans rather than the “never been to sleep” Cumbrian nuclear safety campaigners, Radiation Free Lakeland who have been opposing this mine from the outset.
“Locals like me do not want a mine
West Cumbria is far from ‘living contentedly’ with Sellafield’s decades of discharges of radioactive wastes, including into the Irish Sea, under which a coal mine is planned. In 2017 long before any Extinction Rebellion protests, it was local nuclear safety campaigners, many living in Whitehaven, who blew the whistle on the coal mine. We were told to go ‘get a conscience’ by the coal mine boss. The reason not…
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Royal Biographer, Robert Hardman’s gushing, pro-coal, pro-nuclear zealotry in the Daily Mail has been received with excited shouts of triumph from coal and nuclear fanatics Trudy Harrison MP and others. Triumphalism is the stock in trade for Royal Biographers and the article in the Daily Mail is so utterly awful it is difficult to know how to begin to counter the propaganda. A cynic might say the Royal Biographer is just doing his job of protecting the Royal Assets. West Cumbria Mining have already paid mega-bucks to the Crown Estate for “Exploration Rights” under the Irish Sea, the Crown own the mineral rights of the sea-bed. Imagine how many millions the coal mine’s Exploitation Rights would be worth to the Crown Estate over the decades of creating a void the size of Scafell under…
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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com MILITARY NUCLEAR WASTE INCLUDING PLUTONIUM WINGING ITS WAY TO SELLAFIELD THROUGH TOWNS AND VILLAGES. Highly Active Radioactive Waste is either on its way or already arrived from the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston to Sellafield in Cumbria. The Ministry of Defence and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority who are under the …
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