Nuclear Waste

Posted Sat, 26/03/2011 - 8:16pm by admin

Some introduction on nuclear waste.

Risks from nuclear waste transports

Posted Sun, 27/11/2011 - 1:21pm by DanV

'Stop Nuclear Trains through the Olympic Site and Stratford' - Public meeting organised by the Nuclear Trains Action Group, Stratford Advice Arcade, Saturday 18 June 2011

Presentation by Daniel Viesnik, Kick Nuclear

Why are we worried about nuclear waste trains passing through the Olympic site and the local area? This is due to the risk of a terrorist attack or accident.

Terrorist attack

Cumbrian Petition Opposes the World’s Top Trump Nuke Dump

Posted Thu, 01/09/2011 - 12:49pm by DanV

Press Release – Radiation Free Lakeland -1st September 2011
Contact: Marianne Birkby 015395 63671 - email rafl[at]mariannebirkby.plus.com

Cumbrian Petition Opposes the World’s Top Trump Nuke Dump

Radiation Free Lakeland will be delivering a petition to Cumbria County
Council offices in Kendal at 11am on Monday 5th September. The petition
calls on Cumbria County Council and Copeland and Allerdale Borough
Councils to halt the Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely process by their
withdrawal . The government’s MRWS process has one agenda - “steps

Japanese earthquake: timely reminder of dangers of nuclear waste storage in Cumbria

Posted Fri, 11/03/2011 - 12:00am by admin

Anti-nuclear campaign group, Kick Nuclear, today urged the government to cancel its planned ‘nuclear renaissance’ following the declaration of a ‘state of nuclear emergency’ by officials in Japan.

Spokeswoman Nancy Birch said the dramatic shut down of eleven nuclear reactors following the Japanese earthquakes earlier today is a stark warning of the inherent dangers of the nuclear industry.

And Nancy added that Britain could be sitting on a nuclear time bomb:

Nuclear waste – an unsolved problem

Posted Wed, 31/03/2010 - 11:00pm by admin

In a nuclear reactor, huge quantities of radio­active atoms are created – to the extent that the waste fuel rods that are taken out of the reac­tors are so lethal that they would almost immediately kill someone if they were to be anywhere near.

The nuclear industry relies on “shielding” in order to stop the wastes killing people in such a direct way. However some of the waste will still be radioactive one million years into the future, and even though the waste would be much less intensely radioactive after that time, people would still need to be protected from it.