Tell Michael Gove to Scrap the plans for Seismic testing of the Irish Sea for a deep hot Nuclear Dump. Please do use the excellent letter below from a former employee of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (now Sellafield/Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) as inspiration to send your own letter to Michael Gove, Communities Secretary (copy to your …
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Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima disaster. Members of Radiation Free Lakeland met up with Kazuhiko Kobayashi in 2018 to show him the Sellafield area and he told us that there is money for climate research but not so much for research into the impacts of radiation on our food and health. …
Letter Published in the Westmorland Gazette 3rd March 2022 Dear Editor, Recent correspondents are absolutely right that the coal mine is primarily a political issue. Costings for Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Nuclear Wastes and Geological Disposal of High Level Nuclear Wastes are being prepared right now. The person trusted by government to …
Following a Subject Data Access request it has been revealed (amongst other things) that Radioactive Waste Mangement has given false information to the police/Civil Nuclear Constabulary about the founder of Radiation Free Lakeland- this feels pretty intimidating. The following is a letter to all the Council Members of the "Community Partnership" with Radioactive Waste Management. …
Letter published in the News and Star 23rd January 2022 News and Star - Letter OXFORDSHIRE is home to a government body lavishing millions of pounds on small villages and towns in Cumbria. These pretty villages on the Lakeland fringe, such as Beckermet and Gosforth, have been signed up to a “Community Partnership” for the …
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Radiation Free Lakeland have long argued for the closure of the cracked nuclear plants that EDF are running long past their planned lifetimes. Yesterday one of these cancer factories, Hunterston B was closed down because of the dangerously cracked graphite cores. The BBC report below toots a trumpet about the electricity produced by Hunterston but …
Thank you to everyone who has supported and/or donated to Radiation Free Lakeland campaigns this year. Our Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole campaign logo drawn in biro on a ‘post it’ note back in 2017 feels more relevant than ever with its earthquakey doodle. We have recently received a letter from Government …
The following images are from a four page Advertorial by NIREX in Cumbria Life from 1993 (NIREX was the then government body on "Nuclear Waste Disposal." ) The NIREX plan was for "deep disposal" of intermediate and some low level nuclear wastes. Now in 2021 the "vision" is to put the intermediate level nuclear wastes …
Continue reading Dangerous Nuclear Waste Dumping- Mission Creep and Obfuscation
The following is letter published in the Whitehaven News and Westmorland Gazette last week. Dear Editor Simon Reeve's insightful and luscious documentary on the Lakes this week gives us some interesting footage of the most hazardous, and complex nuclear site, including crumbling concrete ponds of highly radioactive old fuel rods and Civil Nuclear Constabulary's state …
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The following was first published on Lakes Against Nuclear Dump - our dedicated campaign website. From Lakes Against Nuclear Dump to the Lake District National Park Authority. A letter of alarm regarding plans for an Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste Dump for the UK's Low Level Waste Repository at the village of Drigg. The UKs LLWR …
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