https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU7Xizdb16M New Horizons host a talk on the surprising connections between coal and nuclear in Cumbria. A Government-appointed nuclear waste advisor is set to drill the first deep earthquake-inducing coal mine in 30 years in the sub-sea area off the coast of Whitehaven. This coal mine would be just five miles from the already highly …
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published by Lakes Against Nuclear Dump The Bransty Tunnel through which nuclear waste trundles a few times a week 1km beneath Whitehaven Town Centre. image is a still taken from Network Rail film Trudy Harrison MP and wannabe MP Josh MacAlister have joined forces under the banner of "Britain Remade". Their dream of building a …
MONDAY 22nd JANUARY 2024 – Open 7 PM for FREE refreshments – 7:30 PM startA TALK AT NEW HORIZONS, St ANNES, Lancashire. As New Horizons’ regulars know, although our presentations are informative and entertaining, quite a few are also extremely controversial. And that’s deliberate. We like to engage speakers who can stir the “grey matter” …
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The Government's optimistic newly branded 'Great British Nuclear' requires a big hole to get shot of the existing and planned future nuclear wastes. A more accurate label would be 'Great British Nuclear Scam'. Government is being helped enormously in its nuclear ambitions from all angles including the cheery climate guru Mike Berners Lee who is …
Register here - February 22nd 5 pm (UK time) PRESS NOTICE Cumbrian Campaigner Invited to Speak at International Webinar on Nuclear Waste Burial Schemes. Radiation Free Lakeland's founder, Marianne Birkby has been invited to speak at an International Webinar. Speakers from the US, Sweden and the UK will provide updates from other countries exploring or pursuing deep …
Chris Skidmore MP Chair of the Net Zero Review ( net zero CO2) has published his Review and it is breathtaking in its pro-nuclear hubris. This fetid climate of fizzing enthusiasm for nuclear power (linked to nuclear weapons) has been made possible by the abdication of any meaningful opposition from leading NGOs and by the …
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The following article was published in Der Spiegel this week and relates to Greta Thunberg's advocacy of keeping Germany's dangerous old nuclear reactors going. Germany's reactors produce less than 12% (more like 6%) of the country's electricity. Incredibly for one almost sainted for her intelligence Greta took the interviewers prompt that nuclear should be kept …
Solen (the Sun) was painted by Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944). The sun's core is white, while the rays emanating from the sun's core are painted in golden yellow. The brilliance of the sun is awesome and the only nuclear reactor in the world which can be described as 'green'. There are only a few months …
Gordon Frederick Coggon · During 1957 and 1958 I was one of 20,000 British serviceman sent to the central Pacific testing ground of British Hydrogen bomb tests which in my own case involved being at Christmas Island.(now named Kiritimati). During my year there I was subjected to radiation contamination. I witnessed two hydrogen bombs, the first …
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By MIKE ALEWITZ REMEMBERING KAREN SILKWOOD (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) Karen Silkwood died in 1974 under suspicious circumstances while traveling to a meeting with a reporter investigating unsafe conditions at a Kerr-McGee plutonium fuel plant in Oklahoma. These are excerpts from the dedication speech ....Worker safety before corporate profits! — By MIKE …
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