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Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment

The Redfern Inquiry – CORE’s response

As Inquiries into nuclear activities go, the findings of the three-year Inquiry lead by Michael Redfern QC published today, stand out as a refreshingly honest and hard-hitting indictment of the cavalier and unethical practices of harvesting organs from deceased Sellafield workers from the 1960’s to 1992. Few individuals or organisations directly involved in the removal … [Continue Reading]

A Dog’s Dinner by any other name

A critical report on the Government’s attempt to rush through plans to build new nuclear power stations in West Cumbria and other UK sites is published today by the Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change. The National Policy Statements (NPS) launched by Government for public consultation on 9th November 2009, already highly criticised by … [Continue Reading]

Second Call – 20th Low Level Radiation and Health Conference 7th & 8th June 2008

Saturday JUNE 7TH, 2008 9.30-10:Registration 10.00 Welcome To Ambleside Session Chair: Dr Ruth Balogh, Director Centre for Health Research & Practice Development University of Cumbria 10.15:Theme 1: Radiation Risks Radiation-induced bystander effects ¡V latest news. Dr Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Canada) 10.35 What are Non-Targeted Effects of Ionizing Radiation and How Might They Impact Radiation … [Continue Reading]

Health study leaves Sellafield on the hook but conveniently clears nuclear power stations

The 10th report by the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) published today identifies Sellafield once again as a site with more cases of childhood cancer than any other nuclear installation. In the Report, COMARE’s chairman Bryn Bridges points to the increased leukaemias and non-Hodgkin lymphomas around Sellafield as having … [Continue Reading]

CORE welcomes findings of major radiation dose uncertainties in leaked Government Report

Uncertainties in Seascale internal dose estimates are sufficiently large that it would be unwise to rule out radiation as a contributory factor for the effects seen at Seascale, as concluded by several CERRIE members. (Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters) CERRIE was established by the Government in 2001 because of concern that public perception … [Continue Reading]

Plutonium in Children’s Teeth [No 10/03]

The re-emergence of evidence that Sellafield’s plutonium is found in children’s teeth has brought the expected response from British Nuclear Fuels and Sellafield’s pro-nuclear Member of Parliament Dr Jack Cunningham. Both have ventured that the plutonium might have come from nuclear weapons fallout rather than from Sellafield’s reprocessing operations. Whilst it suits BNFL’s purpose to … [Continue Reading]

Sellafield Radiation risk confirmed by new health study

A new report confirms the late Professor Martin Gardner’s hypothesis that Paternal Preconceptional Irradiation (PPI) is a risk factor for leukaemia and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) in children of male Sellafeld radiation workers. The effect that may not be confined to Seascale and cannot be explained by population mixing. The study is to be reported by … [Continue Reading]