Westinghouse Saved – Who Knew? We did! Come on and Join the Resistance to the Nuclear Mafia.

As we predicted Westinghouse has been bailed out by an asset management company.  The nuclear industry will not under any circumstances, apart from huge public outcry and condemnation, be allowed to go belly up.  This means that Westinghouse in Preston will be hoping to gear up to supply all new nuclear reactors here (and overseas …

60 years on Remembering the Windscale Fire

Monday outside the Springfields Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing plant to remember the Windscale Fire, the first major nuclear disaster in the UK. Springfields Near Preston is where the diabolic nuclear fuel was made and is still being made. We remember the voluntary bravery of the Windscale workers and the involuntary bravery of all those unacknowledged babies, …

Nuclear Hotseat – Activist Fightback in the North of England

Many thanks NuclearHotseat and Libbe HaLevy for inviting Radiation Free Lakeland on this weeks podcast of the excellent Nuclear Hotseat: You can find Nuclear Hotseat here - its well worth a listen - not just this week but EVERY week for up to date news, analysis and activist fight back. On this weeks Podcast..... Marianne …

Putting a Hex on You!

The following are questions that Close Capenhurst are asking - Radiation Free Lakeland agree that this is concerning to say the least.  Capenhurst and Springfields are the beginning of the nuclear fuel chain ....the end is at Sellafield (and dispersed to the environment) The Depleted Uranium Hexaflouride (Hex) Conversion Process - QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS How …

Recycling Radioactive Scrap Metal – What Could Go Wrong?

Last weeks headline in the Whitehaven News “New business will recycle spare food” sounds like a very good thing. Only read a little further and all is not what it seems. "Recycle Lives" is a scrap buying and reprocessing business with a Sellafield contract. Usually scrap metal merchants buy in scrap metal for melting down …

This Report Raises the Spectre of the World’s Nuclear Heritage Site

https://issuu.com/radiationfreelakeland/docs/moorside_-_environmental_impact_by_ "this report raises the awful spectre of the Worlds Nuclear Heritage Site"  Radiation Free Lakeland Nuclear Safety Campaigners were joined today by Anti Fracking Campaigners to launch a New report into the environmental impacts of the Cumbrian New Nuclear Build, Moorside proposal.  A 'pop up' protest outside Springfields Westinghouse site, Near Preston, was the …

Petition to Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear Installations

To: Health and Safety Executive of the UK Stop Fossil Fuel Extraction Near Nuclear Installations In your role as protectors of the Health and Safety of UK citizens, we ask you to urge HM Government to effect an immediate ban on the extraction of fossil fuels within 10 miles of Nuclear Installations. Why is this …

New Map: Coal and Fracking is being planned next to existing Nuclear.

Map showing where new coal and new fracking is being planned next to existing nuclear installations.  Including the two most dangerous: Sellafield in Cumbria and Springfields in Lancashire.             Save Save

Petition and Postcards to Support Hanna Poddig who blockaded a train of Uranium Hexaflouride and is now in Prison

Please show your support:   Hanna and her friends blocked a train carrying depleted uranium hexafluoride, running unannounced through densely populated areas in Germany. In case of a rail accident, this waste would have contaminated a vast region. In relation to that entirely peaceful and significant protest, bringing attention to the unacceptable nuclear hazards, Hannah Poddig …

German Nuclear Activist Arrested for Blockade of Uranium Hexaflouride

Report from DIANUKE Please Support Hanna Poddig. On Thursday, May 11th, 2017 German anti-nuclear activist Hanna Poddig went to the prison of Hildesheim (Lower Saxony state) in order to serve her sentence of up to 110 days imprisonment. She had refused to pay a fine of Euro 1650 (around INR 116,000) for chaining herself to …