The fourth sea shipment of vitrified HLW from Sellafield to Japan left Barrow docks at 10am today Friday 14th February 2013 on the ship Pacific Grebe, heading into the teeth of the next major storm to lash the Irish Sea. High winds had prevented the ship from meeting its original departure scheduled for the previous … [Continue Reading]
Two years behind schedule and half a £Billion over budget, Sellafield Ltd now playing fast and loose with planning permission for Evaporator D’s beach remediation
Investigations by local pressure group CORE [Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment] have revealed that Sellafield Ltd has significantly overstepped the timescale promised in its planning application for the ‘Evaporator D Project’ – a Project already heavily criticised by two Government Committees for its escalating costs and for its poor project management by the Nuclear … [Continue Reading]
‘Hot’ particles on West Cumbrian beaches, CORE’s case for signs supported by 97% of St. Bees beach visitors
Sellafield’s Environmental Health watchdog suggested Copeland Council consults with Scotland’s Dounreay and Dalgety Bay Councils’ about the use of beach signs advising the presence of radioactive materials. On Thursday 28th November, CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) presented its case for the use of beach signs on West Cumbrian beaches to the Environmental Health … [Continue Reading]
CORE’s evidence on NDA raised by Public Accounts Committee
Written evidence submitted by CORE [Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment] to the Public Accounts Committee was raised in the Committee hearing today on the activities of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) at Sellafield. Submitted last month, CORE’s evidence related to Sellafield’s commercial operations, the inability of the facilities to meet annual performance targets, and … [Continue Reading]
Nothing welcome about Government’s new build deal
The announcement today of the new-build financial deal cobbled together by Government and which guarantees foreign companies a price for electricity that is not only double today’s market price but one that will be guaranteed for up to 40 years, can best be assessed via US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conundrum on weapons of mass … [Continue Reading]
‘Windscale – the Nuclear Laundry’ Documentary, first shown 1st November 1983. Were discharges from Sellafield to blame? after 30 years, the jury is still out
“It is somewhat galling that Black acknowledges that YTV may have performed something of a public service, and I find it even more galling to have to accept that YTV has so easily identified what Black calls unusual mortality rates of leukaemia amongst young people, when the local health experts have failed to do so”. … [Continue Reading]
‘Guess in the dark’ advice from health protection agencies, reduced monitoring and lack of signs puts beach users at unnecessary risk of exposure to radioactive particles on West Cumbrian beaches
CORE ‘snapshot’ beach survey: 97% of visitors to St. Bees support ’right to know’ A Review conducted by local pressure group CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment), making a strong case for the use of signs on West Cumbrian beaches to advise the public on the presence of radioactive particles, has been sent to … [Continue Reading]
Human Error ‘Gaffe’ at Sellafield’s THORP plant avoids public airing
Details are only just emerging of an event at the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) on the 14th May this year when a holding tank was inexplicably filled with the wrong substance – formaldehyde instead of hydroxylamine. Both are used in the operation to reprocess spent reactor fuel but at wholly different stages of the … [Continue Reading]
Radioactive pizza condemns coastal areas of West Cumbria as Low Level Waste nuclear wasteland
Eight years after it was produced from material gathered from the West Cumbrian coast near Waberthwaite, CORE’s radioactive ‘Pizza Cumbriana’ has finally been delivered to the Low Level Waste (LLW) facility at Drigg for disposal as LLW. Originally presented by CORE in March 2005 to the Italian Embassy in London as evidence of the environmental … [Continue Reading]
Government plutonium swap shop set to increase UK stockpile and turn Sellafield into dumping ground for plutonium no longer wanted by overseas customers
In a press release of 23rd April, the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) has given permission for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) – managers of Sellafield’s 118 tonne plutonium stockpile – to arrange title swaps and transfers for some of the 24 tonnes of foreign-owned plutonium currently held in the obscenely large and … [Continue Reading]