Heysham 2 and Morecambe Bay Heysham 1 (beige colour ) is the nuclear reactor running on 7 out of 8 boilers as one has cracked supports. and Heysham 2 (white top) Photos and description by David Autumns. "Heysham 1 is the beige building, the sister station to Hartlepool. This is the reactor that has the …
Many thanks to Cheshire-Live for this report on 50 year anniversary of enriching uranium at Urenco - in Capenhurst, Cheshire Extract from the report below and full report an be seen here "Urenco’s nuclear plant at Capenhurst this week celebrated 50 years since the government-owned international company was founded . But outside protesters lamented the damage to …
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The Urenco Uranium Enrichment plant in leafy rural Cheshire has a rather Orwellian tagline "Enriching the Future". For fifty years this plant has been enriching uranium for the civil/military nuclear industry, causing a snowball of Nukiller blight. At the invitation of campaign group Close Capenhurst, representatives of groups including Japanese Against Nuclear, Radiation Free Lakeland …
We only get one shot at this precious and vulnerable life so our words matter - our actions matter. Our lives are fleeting in the measure of geological time (unlike nuclear wastes). Seeing the massive crowds of young folk just starting out in their lives gathered in Bristol, all engaged with wanting to protect life …
Close Capenhurst 4th MARCH - WEDNESDAY AT 2pm - OUTSIDE CAPENHURST URENCO URANIUM ENRICHMENT PLANT. Please Join Groups who are opposing the beginning of the Nukiller Fuel Cycle - Enriched Uranium is the start of the military/civil nuclear industrial complex . This is why the Doomsday Clock was conceived - because of the nuclear industry. …
Continue reading Enriching Uranium – 50 year Nukiller Anniversary at Capenhurst in Cheshire
Dragon of Relative Depths. How Deep is YOUR Love for Nuclear Wastes ? Enough to leave it to abandoned steel, copper and concrete containment 1000 metres deep and as big as the City of Carlisle in complex geology? Just a quick comment (for now) on the front page of the Whitehaven News - Once again …
This is why there should be no new nuclear wastes arriving at Sellafield, no new so called Small Modular Reactors on this floodplain ....and no new coal mine deep under the Irish Sea. Cumbria (and the fallout is planetary) is ALREADY under intolerable risks. Today's flood warnings ...fingers crossed
If you cannot join us tomorrow then please do sign and share the petition - Cumbria County Council is going to be asked to declare a Climate Emergency - unless New Nuclear is Ruled Out of the Council's Climate Emergency Plans the planet will burn far hotter, far quicker. PETITION CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL We will …
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NEW NUCLEAR: PROTECTING THE PLANET OR TURNING CLIMATE EMERGENCY INTO A DOUBLE WHAMMY? Across the world climate activists are uniting to protect the planet from continuing fossil fuel use. There is much talk of a “green industrial revolution” and a “Green New Deal.” This sounds good. Who doesn’t want a green industrial revolution and …
Continue reading NEW NUCLEAR: PROTECTING THE PLANET OR TURNING CLIMATE EMERGENCY INTO DOUBLE WHAMMY?
The message below has been recieved off Channel 4 following complaint (below) about the pronuclear bias shown by the presenter. We also note with alarm that although climate emergency was the banner headline topic of the debate, the first deep coal mine in the UK in decades was not given even a raised eyebrow by …
