Image sent anonymously to Radiation Free Lakeland - shows up to 160 shipping containers of Radioactive Scrap Metal at the Cyclife/EDF 'metal recycling facility' in Lillyhall Industrial Estate. The Cyclife site now want to house an "overflow" of shipping containers full of radscrap metal at the Port of Workington. The Environment Agency have given Cyclife …
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 …
Continue reading Recycling Radioactive Scrap Metal – What Could Go Wrong?
Drigg the quaint coastal village is also home to the UKs 'Low Level Waste Repository' (the word 'Nuclear' has been dropped from the official title) Although locals know this as the Nuclear Dump. Drigg is located near the Sellafield nuclear site on the shifting sands of the Cumbrian coast. Up until the late 1980s …
Continue reading Drigg: quaint coastal village and the UK’s “Low Level” Nuclear Dump
Sent today to the UK Consultation of Low Level Radioactive Waste Strategy. The CONsultation on dispersal of wastes to the environment can be emailed here: NILLWStrategy@decc.gsi.gov.uk by 21st April. Send your opposition to dispersal of radioactive wastes and call for a moratorium on the dodgy concept of Decommissioning which has come to mean Dispersal. Nuclear …
Continue reading Not Fit for Purpose – The UK’s Low Level Radioactive Waste Strategy
Radiation Free Lakeland have been asked why they have got involved in what appears to be an animal welfare issue. A fair enough question. We got involved because the only reason the militaristic fence was put up is to "protect' the dangerous stockpiles of nuclear waste which includes 120 tons of weapons grade/terrorist grade plutonium. …
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