On the 19th October there was a much publicised seismic event on the Fylde measuring a magnitude of 0.3ML. The previous day's micro-seismic events in the area at the end of the horizontal shale gas well currently being fracked by Cuadrilla. measured -0.2, -0.8 and -0.3 magnitude. What was NOT publicised in ANY of the press, …
Images - School buses on visit inside the Springfields Nuclear Fuel site - Enriched Uranium entering the site. The following letter has been sent to the interim Chief Executive Officer of Lancashire County Council from a supporter of Radiation Free Lakeland. The continued school trips to the Springfields Nuclear Fuel site slap bang in the …
Bravo to anti-fracking campaigners for getting an interim injunction on fracking at PNR on safety and the lack of evacuation plans. We have sent a letter to Springfields, the UKs nuclear fuel manufacturing plant as the safety concerns overlap and are magnified with these two industries in such close proximity. Dear Springfields Fuels, Westinghouse, We …
There has been a virtual media black out on this in the US. Similarly here in the UK Westinghouse enjoys a cloak of secrecy over its operations so much so that many of those opposing fracking on the Fylde are unaware that the UKS nuclear fuel manufacturing plant (the first in the world) is slap …
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 …
Three men plead not guilty to professional negligence in the only criminal action targeting officials since the triple meltdown From left, former Tepco executives Tsunehisa Katsumata, Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto arriving at court in Tokyo on Friday. Three former executives with the operator of the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have pleaded […] via …
Continue reading Fukushima nuclear disaster: former Tepco executives go on trial — nuclear-news
Dear Friends, The Moorside plan is they say on hold this is not good enough it should be scrapped. As if the Moorside plan being merely on hold wasn't bad enough, there is now a plan to reopen the dangerous old coal mine at Whitehaven. The proposed licenses for this would extend to within a …
Continue reading COAL, FRACKING and NUCLEAR in Close Proximity! Are they having a laugh?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04kt3g4 Here's a quite long interview with Dr Paul Dorfman on the implications of Toshiba nuclear collapse in Yesterdays BBC Business Report, 11.18 mins into the programme: World Business Report - BBC World Service So Toshiba paid over the odds for Westinghouse thinking it was a cash cow guaranteed by our nuclear obsessed government. …
Continue reading Dr Paul Dorfman on BBC – TOSHIBA Paid Over the Odds for Westinghouse
Dear Friends We are raising money to Stop Moorside. With your help we can commission a report into the dodgy design of the untried, untested nuclear reactors proposed. Already we have, thanks to your generosity, commissioned an expert report (to be published in 2017) into the health detriment. Now we would like to be …
Today outside Whitehaven Civic Hall we sang our songs, spoke to lots of people and handed out leaflets countering the propaganda from the nuclear industry. Lots of people stopped to tell us that they are opposed to new build "but what can we do - they're gonna go ahead anyway" Well certainly that is what …
Continue reading NuGen plan to “enhance the environment.” Like they did with Fukushima?
