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Keep it Green RADIOACTIVE DISCHARGE LIMITS TO BE INCREASED FROM SELLAFIELD – HAVE YOUR SAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER 2019(Apologies for the delay in posting but we were waiting for the NFLA (see below) to post their response and they only did this today! See at bottom of this post for their press release) […]

Have your Say:”Sellafield Radioactive Substances Activities (RSA) Permit – Draft Decision” Consultation link: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/sellafield-radioactive-substances-activities-rsa-p/ Deadline is today, December 1, 2019 – most likely midnight in the UK. It is possible that they may accept late submissions by email. We recommend that you complain that you were not made aware in time, if such was the […]

Comment here: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/cumbria-and-lancashire/sellafield-radioactive-substances-activities-rsa-p/ See too: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/uk-environment-agency-allowing-for-increasing-radioactive-discharges-to-the-irish-sea-by-sellafield-in-violation-of-ospar-comment-deadline-1st-december-2019/ The 2006 impact assessment for the landfill, before opening, assumed that the activity limit for radioactive waste in the Calder Floodplain Landfill Segregated Area (CLESA) would be 37,000 Bq/kg, i.e. 37 thousand random shot radioactive discharges per second per kilogram (Bq/kg). The December 2017 CLESA PCRSA based its assumptions […]