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UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities Urge Council to Reconsider Radiation Issues of Coal Mine —

Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole: Radiation Free Lakeland are delighted that the UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities have thrown their weight behind our Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole campaign to stop the Cumbrian Coal mine under the Irish Sea and just five miles from Sellafield. Sellafield B30 Pond…

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January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

TAKE ACTION! We Have Already Delayed the Coal Mine … Now We Need to Stop It. —

Originally posted on Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole:   Dear Friends,THANKS TO ALL who are donating and sharing, writing and campaigning – without you this mine would already be underway!!  We have delayed it repeatedly,  now we need to stop it. The Bad News!Robert Jenrick MP the Communities Secretary has decided not to call…

TAKE ACTION! We Have Already Delayed the Coal Mine … Now We Need to Stop It. —

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) oppose underground coal mine – dangerously close to Sellafield’s radioactive wastes .

NFLA 7th Jan 2021, The UK & Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) is very disappointed that the UK Communities Minister Robert Jenrick has decided not to intervene and ‘call in’ a decision by Cumbria County Council to approve a deep underground coal mine. It clearly goes against the Government’s zero carbon plans and the essential need to transfer our energy system from coal power to renewables.
West Cumbrian Mining has been seeking to build the mine off the Cumbrian coast and partially under the Irish Sea, and there has been considerable opposition to it, despite being twice approved by Cumbria County Council. More than 2,300 people objected to the plan along with Friends of the Earth, Keep Cumbrian Coal in the Hole (KCCH) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has said the decision “…is an almighty backwards step in the fight against climate change and a complete disaster for our children’s future.” One of the concerns the NFLA has with this coal mine development going ahead is its potential impact on radioactive wastes on the Irish Seabed which derive from the Sellafield site.
NFLA note that a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the KCCH group regarding the “expected subsidence” and resuspension of Sellafield’s radioactive wastes from the seabed as a
result of the coal mine has gone to the Sellafield site for internal review.https://www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/nfla-troubled-uk-communities-minister-not-calling-in-decision-deep-underground-coal-mine-west-cumbria/

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, UK | Leave a comment

Taiwan ban on Japanese food looks set to stay — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

Fukushima Prefecture, which is the second-largest producer of peaches in Japan, saw the reputation of its local produce take a nosedive after the March 2011 nuclear disaster Dec 8, 2020 Taipei – Two years ago, Taiwanese voters approved a referendum to continue a ban on food from five Japanese prefectures after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear […]

Taiwan ban on Japanese food looks set to stay — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Local despair over Fukushima’s radioactive mushrooms — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

December 10, 2020 An autumnal delight that used to attract tourists to Fukushima Prefecture still grows in the region’s mountains and forests, but these ones are forbidden to eat. Wild mushrooms continue to record high levels of cesium almost a decade since the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant resulted in extensive radioactive […]

Local despair over Fukushima’s radioactive mushrooms — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

France conducts enhanced thermonuclear missile test

France conducts improved ASMPA nuclear missile test shot from Rafale  https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/france-conducts-improved-asmpa-nuclear-missile-test-shot-from-rafale/141862.articleBy Craig Hoyle7 January 2021  France has performed a first test firing of an updated MBDA ASMPA nuclear missile from a Dassault Rafale fighter.

Conducted on 9 December 2020, the test activity involved the airframer and weapons provider, plus the flight-test organisation of France’s DGA defence procurement agency. Tracking of the unarmed medium-range missile was performed from facilities in Biscarrosse, Hourtin and Quimper, the DGA notes.

The French air force and navy have been equipped with supersonic ASMPA strategic weapons since 2009 and 2010, respectively, currently on F3-standard Rafales.

Paris in December 2016 launched a mid-life modernisation activity for the weapon, intended to address obsolescence issues and “improve missile performance”.

An MBDA fact sheet describes updates as including “significantly enhanced” range and penetration capabilities, along with the integration of a “new, medium energy thermonuclear charge”.

The DGA says the recent test firing marks the completion of detailed design activities, with the updated weapon’s formal qualification expected early this year. This will be followed by series production work and a future qualification firing before the ramjet-powered weapon is approved to enter operational service.

France plans to eventually replace the air-launched ASMPA with a future nuclear weapon named ASN4G.

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Nuclear in France: why bother? This technology is on the way out.

Nuclear in France: why bother?  Les Echos, The energy produced from the atom is much less competitive than that from wind turbines and solar panels, assures Julien Tchernia, ekWateur president. So let’s stop supporting a sector that no longer keeps its economic promises, he writes.

By Julien Tchernia (president and co-founder of ekWateur)  Jan 7, 2021  An article or post published on renewable energy always gives rise to a series of derogatory comments from nuclear advocates. Even if the content does not mention or refer to nuclear, its aficionados take to the pen to denigrate renewable modes of production and make the article of their favorite mode of production.
Why do they feel so threatened? Isn’t the risk of this mode of production disappearing rather linked to the complexity and costs of building and producing new nuclear power plants? Hasn’t the time come to fully embrace the shift to renewable energy?……..  (subscribers only)  https://www.lesechos.fr/idees-debats/cercle/opinion-nucleaire-en-france-pourquoi-senteter-1278907?fbclid=IwAR2pH8FJBJeoUq4eXD4VUjoHtCvwldQAYueBHFcTY6yh0WsXfjQkiRTPDNQ

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | Leave a comment

UK’s Wylfa nuclear power plan – Council approval is postponed again.

North West Place 6th Jan 2021, The council has deferred its decision to award planning consent for the nuclear power plant scheme on Anglesey for a second time while its
developer winds up operations at the site after pulling out of the project.

https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/wylfa-planning-deadline-moved-as-deal-yet-to-emerge/

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK | Leave a comment

Hinkley Point C mud dredging – radioactive mud could be dumped off Somerset instead of south Wales.

Hinkley Mud. BBC 7th Jan 2021,  Mud dredged as part of Hinkley Point C nuclear plant construction could start being dumped off Somerset instead of south Wales. Developer EDF
Energy is considering two sites in the Bristol Channel.
They include Cardiff Grounds, where sediment dumping in 2018 provoked extensive protests
over concerns the mud was contaminated by nuclear waste. But a private disposal site off Portishead, on the England side of the channel, is also under consideration. A public outcry over the original mud dumping led to protests and petitions attracting hundreds of thousands of signatures online, a full Senedd debate and an acknowledgment by both the developers
and Natural Resources Wales that better communication with the public was needed over the plans.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55577848

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | oceans, UK, wastes | Leave a comment

Most Maldon District Councillors oppose Bradwell big nuclear development: small reactors would carry the same dangers.

Maldon Standard 7th Jan 2021, A CAMPAIGN group is calling for a council to make up its mind about a proposed nuclear power plant. Last month, Maldon District Council voted in
favour of a recommendation to send a letter in support of the development of small modular reactors at the site of Bradwell B power station. The letter was sent to MP John Whittingdale and to the head of nuclear development at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in support of the development.
Blackwater Against New Nuclear Group (BANNG) said “We find this suggestion flies entirely in the face of recent pronouncements from the Council.” Previously the council reviewed its
position to back Bradwell B due to the environmental and ecological impacts it would have.
Now BANNG says Maldon District Council “can’t have it both ways”. Spokesman Varrie Blowers said: “BANNG has always maintained that the main problem with any new nuclear development at Bradwell was the unsuitability of the site itself. “It was clear during the recent debates
on the plans for Bradwell B that a strong majority of councillors agreed with BANNG that Bradwell is an unsuitable, unacceptable and unsustainable site for nuclear development.
“It is this message that needs to be made clear so that the site is removed from the Government’s list of potentially suitable sites. “Small modular reactors would create the same
environmental, heritage and ecological problems as those opposed by Maldon
District Council in relation to Bradwell B.”

https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/18991418.maldon-district-council-must-make-mind-up-say-bradwell-b-protestors/

January 9, 2021 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, UK | Leave a comment

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