While the country is locked down to protect us from Covid19, the government's nuclear projects continue. These include construction of nuclear submarines, construction on the Sellafield site (new gas plant and more) and the continued construction of Hinkley C. If Moorside had not been scrapped there would be an influx of thousands of workers ensconced …
Continue reading No Lockdown for Nuclear Construction Projects – Trident, Sellafield, Hinkley C
"Fair Trade" Barrow, Home to Trident (note this photo is not a spoof! It is real). Sellafield where once there was a farm where baby booties where made - then bombs were birthed. Wastwater - millions of gallons of freshwater daily are abstracted from here to cool the nuclear wastes which make the bombs. …
Continue reading Events in Cumbria for Hiroshima Day on Monday 6th August
Celebrations that Moorside is to be scrapped are on hold. At least until we can be sure that our nuclear obsessed Government are not going to publicly fund this as has happened with ALL other nuclear new build before. The GMB union is agitating.. This is the GMB's "Response To Moorside Crisis Wednesday, August 1, …
Continue reading GMB want Government to Bail Out Moorside – the Public Must Pay For Nukiller!
Bunting is being put up to welcome His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, who has been confirmed as the guest of honour at a special community event to mark the Lake District as a World Heritage Site on 26 March. Radiation Free Lakeland will be sending Prince Charles our "Pictorial Guide to the Lake …
in Friday's Lancaster Guardian.... Warheads brought through Lancaster...... by Nick Lakin - Lancaster Guardian Thursday May 25th 2017 Concern has been raised over the transportation of nuclear warheads through the Lancashire countryside. A major military convoy which left the M6 at Junction 34 and made its way to Halton Training Camp sparked debate on social …
Scrap Trident. Scrap Nuclear Power. National Funding Crisis Solved Comment from Cumbria on QT!
Last night supporters of a Radiation Free Lakeland went along to the meeting called by Power without Pylons. The meeting at the pretty village of Broughton in Furness was attended by a whole host of people who have been given the green light by the great and the good to vehemently oppose the Pylons while …
Continue reading PYLONS IN CUMBRIA – Just Like a Halloween Movie.
The Evening Mail has reported on the Marine Accident Investigation Branch's findings on the incredible incident in April 2015 when a submarine (likely to be carrying nuclear warheads) dragged a fishing boat across the Irish Sea. Why isn't this headline news across the UK we wonder? From the Evening Mail - 14 October 2016 7:59AM …
Continue reading Barrow-built submarine dragged fishing crew across Irish Sea
The cost to the public purse would be tens of £billions less than Trident?
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE TRIDENT TWO! NIKKI CLARKE AND THEO SIMON Radiation Free Lakeland have just heard the news that the Trident Two have been acquitted today at Plymouth Magistrates Court. Cumbrians have sent messages of Support for the Trident Two's peaceful protest in the form of a blockade at the Plymouth Devonport Dock. We have …
