News Update from Nikki

Sellafield from Corney Fell - Photo Radiation Free Lakeland Excellent News Update below from the South West with a Big Picture Outlook.  If you would like to subscribe to Nikki's Updates and Analysis please email nikkijones5@hotmail.com Beyond all the heat, fires, drought, mudslides and other catastrophes of the last few weeks, perhaps the overwhelming change …

Radioactive Sand Sculptures by Cumbria Wildlife Trust?

An urgent request has been sent to Sellafield to monitor and retrieve radioactive particles from  St bees beach ahead of Cumbria Wildlife Trust"s 'Beached Art' day. Sellafield have treated this straightforward request under Freedom of Information rules which means that there will not be a reply for at least a month and then we may …

Enriching the Future with Uranium? No Thanks!

Look what was happening this sunday in leafy Cheshire!  Who knew?? The STOP URENCO Declaration was read out by dedicated folk who would hesitate to call themselves Protectors.  That is what they are though in a BIG way.  They made the journey to Capenhurst in Cheshire to remind us all that enough is enough of …

This Thursday Radiation Free Lakeland will be at PNR – and then onto the front line of the civil military nuclear industry a stones throw away @SPRINGFIELDS

Images:  Springfields makes all the UKs nuclear fuel (and overseas too) / Nukiller Waste is Too Much to Bear /  Containers of Uranium Hexaflouride stacked up at the Springfields site (Springfields is on the same narrow country road proposed for fracking vehicles to Roseacre wood) NUKILLER WASTES MADE IN PRESTON:  TOO MUCH TO BEAR Thursday …

World Heritage Sham

Today the Prince of Wales unveiled a plaque in Keswick to celebrate the Lake District being awarded World Heritage Site status. Campaigners from Radiation Free Lakeland were at the event, dressed in a barrel of nuclear waste, as Prince Charles arrived. Radiation Free Lakeland have said: "World Heritage Site status for the Lake District is …

Gender and Radiation: Women and Children Require More Protection

Film - "Fighting for Gemma" Today is International Women's Day  "a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities."  There are many such women in the anti-nuclear movement.  …

Today Five Years Ago – The Dump Was Ditched!

https://youtu.be/M1dzDFvtMTc On this day in Carlisle Cumbria County Council voted NO to the proposed Geological 'Disposal' Facility for intermediate and high level nuclear wastes. Government however is desperate to be seen to have a "final plan" for nuclear wastes. This is so that they can make more, ever hotter,  with dangerous new fuel burnt in …

Residents Action on Fylde Fracking Oppose the Plan to Stack Shipping Containers of Nuclear Waste Ever Higher Beside the Irish Sea

Many Thanks to Residents Action on Fylde Fracking for their much welcomed support.  It was such a relief to see people put their concerns into action to stand with us in resisting the nuclear juggernaught.    RAFFs report is the only one to date in either the alternative or mainstream media to give voice to the …

Last Saturday’s Wasdale Show – No To Moorside!

West Cumbrian Radiation Free Lakelanders had a stall at last saturday's beautiful setting of the Wasdale Show.  There was lots of interest in the Stop Moorside petition which has now been signed by over 8300 people.  There was also huge interest in the ongoing Resistance to the insanity of making Cumbria an ever expanding and increasingly …

Radiation Free Lakeland – A Message

Dear Friends, I am going to be taking a break from Radiation Free Lakeland until 2016 in order to support my daughter Rebecca who is about to undergo a stem cell transplant. The fantastic Radiation Free Lakeland Facebook group can be found here.  I will pop in from time to time on the Facebook group …