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Dear Jeremy Corbyn MP, Labour Leader,

I am writing to you on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland, a volunteer group based in Cumbria[1] to thank you whole heartedly for pledging to ban fracking which

“locks us into an energy infrastructure that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to clean energy”.[2]

We agree entirely with the case against fracking, as well as being fossil fuel based there are also radiation risks from unleashing large amounts of radon deep underground[3]. The nuclear industry is, like fracking, extractive and extreme. But nuclear is in a league all of its own[4].

The Electrical Trades Union in Australia (ETU) has banned its members from working in uranium mines, nuclear power stations or any other part of the nuclear fuel cycle: “We are sending a clear message to the industry and the wider…