Man Made Earthquakes in Cumbria?

Do we want to risk man made seismic activity close to Sellafield?  Please write to Cumbria County Council before July 10th and make your voice heard in opposition to the first coal mine in the UK for 30 years...near to....Sellafield!!! “The majority of the anthropogenic related earthquakes were caused by coal mining and the decline …

Letter: Stop Moorside – Save Europe

  Letter in last week's Whitehaven News and this week's Westmorland Gazette IS SELLAFIELD PREPARED? Last Saturday while I was out for a walk on Latter Rig, there was a plume of thick black smoke curling round the Duddon Estuary from the west coast. The first stomache plummeting thought was 'something's happened at Sellafield'.  The …

High Level Radioactive Waste from Sellafield Continues its Journey Across France

Press from France (translation ours) on the convoy of highly radioactive waste from Sellafield making its way across Europe. * A castor nuclear waste train crosses the Lorraine afternoon * by Jean-Christophe Dupuis-Rémond according to various sources, a convoy of Swiss waste passes through the France Wednesday, September 16, 2015 to reach Basel (Switzerland). This …

Highly Radioactive Waste on the Move Across Europe

Below is a report from France Bleu on the cargo of highly radioactive waste being transported by sea, rail and road from Sellafield via the port of Barrow across Europe.  The vitrified waste is being 'repatriated' to Switzerland, to do this  wastes have already been dumped out to the Irish sea to Cumbrian air and leaving highly radioactive …

Highly Radioactive Nuclear Waste to be Shipped from the South Lakes This Weekend

This weekend has been chosen as the date to ship and truck Highly Radioactive Nuclear Wastes from Barrow in Furness in Cumbria  to Switzerland.  It certainly is a good weekend to bury bad news what with Jeremy Corbyn election fever gripping the country. I went to Barrow today to stage a one woman protest, no …

“Its always the technology that lets us down” says International Authority on nuclear safety

    Many thanks to the Bristol nuclear waste barrels for their epic journey to West Cumbria.  These are the ONLY nuclear barrels that we want in Cumbria but more of the REAL spent fuel is arriving by the week for insane reprocessing. The barrels were worn by local West Cumbrians and by Bristolians alike. The …

This Wednesday DEMO 5.00 to 6.00pm outside Nuke Dump meeting

    Please join us on 30th April in demonstrating to Government that Cumbria (or anywhere else!) should NOT be in the frame for the dumping of high level nuclear wastes underground. The demonstration will start at 5pm prior to the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management meeting in the Hunday Manor Hotel.  Please join us …