We will be in the area of the "Look Out Clock" in Workington Town Centre tomorrow from 1pm to 3pm approx There will be the petition to sign and banners to display Join us - bring a banner - show resistance to the crazy plan to store "low level" radioactive scrap metal at the Port …
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PETITION TO STOP RADIOACTIVE SCRAP METAL DUMP AT THE PORT OF WORKINGTON
To: MP FOR WORKINGTON, Mark Jenkinson and Cumbria County Council NO RADIOACTIVE SCRAP METAL DEPOT AT THE PORT OF WORKINGTON PETITION CAN BE SIGNED HERE EDF want to store up to 80 shipping containers of radioactive scrap metal at the Port of Workington. The Port of Workington situated at the mouth of the river Derwent on …
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Nuclear Waste Dump at the Port of Workington “Permitted Development” say Cumbria County Council.
Drone Image anonymously sent to Radiation Free Lakeland showing approximately 160 containers at Cyclife, Lillyhall, Near Workington during June 2021 Cumbria County Council have said that the storing of up to 80 containers of radioactive scrap metal at the Port of Workington is "permitted development" requiring no discussion or vote. Our reply urges the Council …

Radioactive Scrap Metal Overflow Plan at the Port of Workington – The Dark Side of Decommissioning
Image sent anonymously to Radiation Free Lakeland - shows up to 160 shipping containers of Radioactive Scrap Metal at the Cyclife/EDF 'metal recycling facility' in Lillyhall Industrial Estate. The Cyclife site now want to house an "overflow" of shipping containers full of radscrap metal at the Port of Workington. The Environment Agency have given Cyclife …

Thanks to Cumberland Echo – the first media to flag Radioactive Scrap Metal plan for Port of Workington
The following is an article which first appeared in the Cumberland Echo,Workington Port to house radioactive scrap metal? Written by John Walsh Friday, 05 March 2021A controversial plan to house up to 40 shipping containers, with radioactive scrap metal inside at the Port of Workington, has sparked protests from an environment group.Radiation Free Lakeland claim this is being …

Port of Workington: Nuclear Waste Hub ?
Radioactive Scrap Metal Plant at Lillyhall , Workington is Now Overflowing - Cyclife Want to Use the Port of Workington to House up to 40 Shipping Containers Full of Radioactive Scrap. We recently saw reference online to an application by Cyclife to the Environment Agency To gain sight of the documents we had to ask …
Millenials and the Chernobyl Series: “Tell us the Truth!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVCCY_3_Gg The Chernobyl series has sent a shock wave through the Millenial generation. Millenials have been fed a grossly rose tinted view of the nuclear industry through the media, through the education system, through the wholesale abdication of mainstream NGOs ((Foe and Greenpeace in the UK have not actively had a dedicated campaign …
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Radioactive Scrap Metal Plant at Workington wants to INCREASE Radioactive effluent – UPDATE 23.3.19 CYCLIFE HAVE WITHDRAWN THEIR APPLICATION!
UPDATE as of 23rd March - Cyclife (EDF) radioactive scrap metal 'recycling' yard has withdrawn their application to the Environment Agency for an increase in radioactive liquid discharge to the drains at Lillyhall. This follows our complaints (see below). The situation is still dire with radioactive wastes (including active laundry) going to Lillyhall for novel …
How to Get Shot of Nuclear Wastes?
The planned incinerator at Carlisle does not give any indication where the waste would be coming from. Radiation Free Lakeland have written a letter of objection. The door is wide open to a tsunami of radioactive waste being incinerated. The private operators and even the regulators can get away with saying ' what …

Recycling Radioactive Scrap Metal – What Could Go Wrong?
Last weeks headline in the Whitehaven News “New business will recycle spare food” sounds like a very good thing. Only read a little further and all is not what it seems. "Recycle Lives" is a scrap buying and reprocessing business with a Sellafield contract. Usually scrap metal merchants buy in scrap metal for melting down …
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