Excellent Article in The Ecologist Sellafield - how the nuclear industry fleeced taxpayers by David Lowry 19th January 2015 Last week the consortium holding a £22bn contract to clean up the Sellafield nuclear site was sacked, writes David Lowry. But this is just the end of a long and scandalous tale of corporate profit at …
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Radiation Free Lakeland are lobbying for independent radiation monitoring in the North West. This used to be carried out by Radiation Monitoring in Lancashire - RADMIL - which was disbanded a few years ago due to council cuts. Multi-national private companies taking on lucrative government contracts to "decommission" nuclear plants are essentially self regulating, such …
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Dear Jamie Reed MP Thank you very much for taking the time to speak to members of Radiation Free Lakeland at our Alternative Sellafield Story in Whitehaven. As promised we are writing to you with information about the flytipping of radioactive waste in Lillyhall Landfill. There has been an unexpected turn of events with …
The UK government it seems is desperate to burn public money, so desperate that it has made a deal with France's EDF to guarantee more than twice the market price for nuclear electricity from the proposed new Hinkley C in Somerset. This will be seen as a test case for further new nuclear build. Too …
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The following is from NuCLear News and outlines the bonkers scenario that would see the UK covered in nuclear enrichment plants, nuclear reactors, reprocessing plants and four (!!) geological dumps. No wonder there is a dash for fracked gas - Sellafield uses over £30 million of gas now - imagine what 50+ nuke "facilities" would …
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Taking the No Nuke Dump Message to Whitehall - Loud and Clear Every now and then the No Nuke Dump! message gets into the local media loud and clear. Getting the No Nuke Dump! message or any genuine debate around the proposed sacrificing of Cumbria, onto the BBC and into the national media is much …
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Todays Westmorland Gazette.. http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/10735145.Anti_nuclear_debate_taken_to_Lake_District_show/ Opponents get signatures for minister letter by Ellis Butcher (extracts below) Local opponents to a potential underground nuclear waste repository in Cumbria canvassed for signatures at the weekend. Ms Birkby said: "The overwhelming majority of people we spoke to were appalled at the Government coming back with this new plan, and …
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correspondence@decc.gsi.gov.uk To the Department of Energy and Climate Change Dear Ed Davey, Cumbrians have said No repeatedly to a geological dump under this land from Morecambe Bay to the Solway. The new consultation announced by DECC is a narrowly focused set of questions with the aim of achieving a Yes response to a 'geological disposal …
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