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Have Your Say: “Sellafield Radioactive Substances Activites (RSA) Permit” Sample Response

December 1, 2019

Have your Say:”Sellafield Radioactive Substances Activities (RSA) Permit – Draft Decision” Consultation link: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/sellafield-radioactive-substances-activities-rsa-p/ Deadline is today, December 1, 2019 …

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UK Environment Agency Aims to Increase Tritium Limit in Irish Seaside Landfill from 200 Thousand Bq/Kg to 40 Million Bq/Kg; Impact Studies (2006, 2017) Assume 37 Thousand Bq/Kg; A Bq is a Radioactive Shot Per Second: Comment Deadline Tonight

December 1, 2019

Comment here: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/sellafield-radioactive-substances-activities-rsa-p/ See too: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/uk-environment-agency-allowing-for-increasing-radioactive-discharges-to-the-irish-sea-by-sellafield-in-violation-of-ospar-comment-deadline-1st-december-2019/ The 2006 impact assessment for the landfill, before opening, assumed that the activity limit …

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Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers, Homeless Used To Cleanup At Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site; UN Experts Raise The Alarm

August 18, 2018

“Workers hired to decontaminate Fukushima reportedly include migrant workers, asylum seekers and people who are homeless,”… Tens of thousands of …

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No Safe Dose of Radioactive Ruthenium 106; Increased Dose is Increased Risk; Even the US NRC Knows That It Is Toxic

November 22, 2017

Ruthenium 106 is both a chemical and radiological hazard. With a half-life of over one year, Ruthenium 106 will stay …

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60th Anniversary of the Windscale Nuclear Fire Disaster – Events

October 8, 2017

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Please join us if you can – here is a Poster to Download and Display –…

The Risks Attached to South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Strategy

April 28, 2017

As published by “The Conversation”, August 19, 2015: “The risks attached to South Africa’s nuclear energy strategy By Vladimir Slivyak, …

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Beatrix Potter’s Beloved Lake District Still Endangered by Proposed New Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Waste

April 16, 2017

Beatrix Potter, best known as the author-illustrator of “The Tale of Peter Rabbit“, “supported the efforts of the National Trust …

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And now for the next chapter! Ireland and Sellafield!

October 10, 2016

A new nuclear power station is proposed at Moorside near Sellafield, as well as at Hinkley Pt. Our map distance …

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British Nuclear Plant “Unwelcome & Unwanted” – Sinn Féin Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Seán Crowe TD

August 8, 2016

News Release from Sinn Féin: “British Nuclear Plant ‘Unwelcome & Unwanted’ – Crowe 4 August, 2016 – by Seán Crowe …

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UN Finds the UK in Violation of Transboundary Environmental Impact Convention for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station; Europe at Risk

May 12, 2016

A nuclear accident anywhere in Europe may seriously impact much of Europe, as did the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster, and to …

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Nuclear Lobby (NEI) to Dominate NRC-Public at Meeting on Venting Radiation into the Environment and Other “Fukushima” Lessons Not Learned

January 2, 2016

Filtered chimney at Windscale ( Sellafield)Cockcroft Folly 1957 Windscale Nuclear Accident: “Without the filters – installed at the last minute …

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Might You be Forced to be a Nuclear Worker? Snatched from a Cinema to Fight a Nuclear Fire?

July 6, 2015

As we’ve recently discussed, Savannah River Nuclear Site is one of the top “welfare to work” employers for several South …

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Windscale, Moorside, Sellafield Accident Impact-Fallout Map

April 25, 2015

“The Chernobyl accident is an obvious example of how human failures when dealing with a modern technical system can have …

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Tourism, Milk and Cheese or Nuclear?

February 13, 2015

Proposed Site of Moorside Nuclear Reactors Note the cows, Irish Sea and the beach in the background. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorside_nuclear_power_station Over 50 …

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No Radiation Filters on New Emergency Vents for US Fukushima like Nuclear Reactors – 55 Years Behind on Safety

December 28, 2014

The UK Installed Emergency Filters on its Windscale Reactor 55 Years Ago. The US NRC refuses to add radiation filters …

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100 Boreholes would bring Sellafield’s Leaking Mess to the surface – to be dumped where?

November 21, 2014

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Moorside – 100 boreholes Nuclear Developers Rip Out Footpath Signs – Moorside The beautiful River Ehen…

57 years ago today in 1957: The Windscale Fire

October 10, 2014

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
STOP MOORSIDE- The Land is OURS A write up about todays Windscale anniversary and a reminder…

Lies of Our Times – High Level Omissions by Anna Mayo

February 5, 2014

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
This is an article from the 1994 issue of Lies of Our Times – the nuclear…

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