Heightened security around BNFL’s two armed MOX ships and increased dockside activity over the past week has preceded the ships’ departure from BNFL’s Marine Terminal at Ramsden Dock, Barrow-in-Furness this morning. The security has included UKAEA police squads guarding the terminal around the clock, sweeps of the ships’ hulls by a police diving team and … [Continue Reading]
CORE’s response to the BNFL/ British Energy Feasibility Study Agreement
The agreement signed today in London between British Nuclear Fuels and British Energy to assess the feasibility of the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor as an eventual replacement for UK’s AGR power stations has been met with scepticism by local anti-nuclear group CORE. A spokesperson for the group said today “BNFL’s Chief Executive has described the agreement … [Continue Reading]
CORE campaigners invited to brief members of the British Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body
Following their meeting with a cross-party delegation of Norwegian politicians at Sellafield earlier in the week, CORE campaigners were invited to brief members of the British Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body on Sunday prior to the their visit to Sellafield. Committee D members of the Body are drawn from the UK and Irish Government and from members … [Continue Reading]
Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP)
The BNFL press statement today describing the belated introduction of plutonium into the Sellafield MOX plant as being ‘the best possible christmas present’ has been likened by CORE to a christmas cracker joke in the worst possible taste for West Cumbria. A spokesperson for CORE added: “ We’ve witnessed today the irreversible contamination of a … [Continue Reading]
Held over a barrel by BNFL, British Energy slams reprocessing
THORP’s overall largest reprocessing customer has called for an immediate moratorium on any further reprocessing of its spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield. British Energy operates the UK’s fleet of Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactors (AGR) from which over 2000 tonnes of spent fuel had previously been contracted for THORP’s 7000 tonne Baseload. In its submission on future … [Continue Reading]
Ministers’ Decision on SMP ‘Dangerous and Disgraceful’
CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has roundly condemned the decision by Ministers to allow production of nuclear weapons useable plutonium fuel at BNFL’s £250M loss-making Sellafield MOX Plant as being dangerous and disgraceful. Following recent US events and subsequent world warnings about nuclear weapons use by terrorists, the decision by British Ministers to … [Continue Reading]
BNFL forced to close Sellafield reprocessing plants
Contradicting an official company statement in this week’s Sellafield Newsletter, sources inside Sellafield have confirmed to CORE that the THORP reprocessing plant has been closed down because levels of liquid High Level Wastes (HLW) have reached the upper limit imposed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) – and not ‘ for routine maintenance ’. It … [Continue Reading]
Troubles in store for beleaguered THORP concealed from customers
A report by CORE [Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment] , including as yet unpublished BNFL documents on Sellafield’s radioactive discharges, reveals that overseas customers with reprocesing contracts for THORP have been misled by BNFL into believing that their spent fuel contracts will be completed by March 2005. THORP’s Baseload contracts amounting to 7000 tonnes … [Continue Reading]
BNFL close to breaching contracts through failure of THORP and Vitrification
Angry Overseas customers for THORP’s Baseload, highly critical of the plant’s poor performance and that of the Waste Vitrification Plant (WVP) have slammed the company for being unresponsive to their concerns, unwilling to help resolve them and close to breaching terms of the contracts. The leaked minutes of secret meetings held between customers and BNFL … [Continue Reading]
Chernobyl Study supports the ‘Gardner’ Parental Preconceptual Radiation Theory
A report published by the Royal Society has revealed that children born to fathers employed as ‘liquidators’ during the 1986 Chernobyl accident show a 7-fold increase in mutation rate of DNA. Liquidators were workers drafted in to clean up the reactor site whilst the accident was on-going and after it was brought under control. Undertaken … [Continue Reading]