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NuClear News

Posted on June 15, 2011 by graham

NuClear News is a free monthly newsletter designed to keep climate campaigners informed about nuclear developments in the UK, and anti-nuclear campaigners about climate issues. Building more reactors will make the climate change problem worse, so NuClear News will promote understanding, … Continue reading →

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Talk on Issues Register to West Cumbria Partnership

Posted on April 14, 2011 by graham

On April 14th 2011 Pete Roche gave a short talk to the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership meeting on the NWAA Issues Register and the NDA’s response which focussed on just four of the 101 outstanding scientific and … Continue reading →

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Scottish Waste Policy – a brief assessment

Posted on January 26, 2011 by graham

The Scottish Government’s Higher Activity Waste Policy – a brief assessment. The Scottish Government does not support deep geological disposal. It published its finalised Higher Activity Waste Policy in January 2011. This brief assessment by Pete Roche was written for … Continue reading →

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Minister congratulates David Lowry

Posted on November 16, 2010 by graham

Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab): Will the Secretary of State congratulate Dr David Lowry on publishing evidence from the 1962 report of the Medical Research Council’s National Radiological Protection Board to show that there was an experiment in which people, … Continue reading →

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Why we shouldn’t join the nuclear bazaar again

Posted on November 15, 2010 by graham

Dr. David Lowry is an independent research policy consultant specializing in nuclear issues, working with politicians, NGOs and the media.  He is a former director of the European Proliferation Information Centre [EPIC] in London.   This article for the New Paradigms Forum, is … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Waste Inventory

Posted on August 28, 2010 by graham

Any community expressing a willingness to host a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) should know exactly what it is letting itself in for. So the first question such a community might be expected to ask would be “how much waste will … Continue reading →

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Letter to Geoffrey Podger

Posted on August 20, 2010 by graham

Letter to Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive of the Health & Safety Executive, regarding comments made by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) representative at  the Cumbria County Council Planning Hearing of November 2008, which  misrepresented the position of the NII, with … Continue reading →

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NDA & ‘Credibility of Evidence Base’

Posted on August 20, 2010 by graham

For the Autumn 2008 Waste Planning Hearing into the Waste Framework to be adopted by Cumbria County Council, the Inspector had requested evidence concerning whether the proposed approach to radioactive wastes was based on a “robust and credible evidence base”. … Continue reading →

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NII & Incorrect Evidence to Waste Planning Hearing

Posted on August 20, 2010 by graham

At the November 2008 Cumbria County Council Planning Hearing into their Framework for Wastes, Rachel Western referred to the July 2008 NII Newsletter, to show that: the NII required ‘urgent’ measures to be carried out to address problems with waste … Continue reading →

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Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

Posted on May 28, 2010 by graham

Volume 7, Issue 3, 2010 Contents include an Editorial by Professor Blowers and five research papers focusing on issues of participation in radioactive waste policy covering the Nordic countries and the UK. Radioactive waste has long been the Achilles Heel of the … Continue reading →

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Doubts over Geological Repository

Posted on February 19, 2010 by graham

Experts believe that gases generated by metal corrosion and degradation of organic waste would be likely to accumulate within a geological repository. The main gases produced would be hydrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. It is thought these could contain radioactive … Continue reading →

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Performance of CoRWM

Posted on January 27, 2010 by graham

In this document Rachel Western argues that the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) is not acting responsibly – for it is telling the Government what it wants to hear – and not what it needs to hear. Thus although … Continue reading →

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Uranium Exploitation and Environmental racism

Posted on March 25, 2009 by graham

The draft Nuclear Industry Association ‘Justification Application’ – dated June 2008 – devotes only seven paragraphs to general discussion of uranium supplies, and  eight further paragraphs in the Annex 1 on the nuclear fuel cycle (three on uranium mining and … Continue reading →

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Ed Grothus Obituary

Posted on March 24, 2009 by graham

Ed Grothus, who has died aged 86, started his career building atomic bombs, before becoming a committed nuclear abolitionist. He worked for nearly 20 years at the US nuclear bomb factory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico. But … Continue reading →

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Sosnovy Bar Conference on Decommissioning

Posted on October 28, 2008 by graham

At present Russia is not prepared for the decommissioning of its power units and for implementing solutions to the complex of social, environmental, technological, financial and moral problems of the Decommission Regions (DR) – the regions, where NPPs and radioactive/nuclear … Continue reading →

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Environment Agency one in a million consultation

Posted on September 9, 2008 by graham

Dr Rachel Western’s response to the Environment Agency consultation on guidance to the nuclear industry on what criteria they would need to meet to be given permission to dispose of nuclear waste – the so-called Guidance on Requirements for Authorisation … Continue reading →

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Longevity of ILW Packages

Posted on August 31, 2008 by graham

Thousands of containers of lethal nuclear waste are likely to fail before being safely sealed away underground according to an Environment Agency report published in August 2008. This prompted the chair of the first Committee on Radioactive waste Management Professor … Continue reading →

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Letter to Independent on Sunday

Posted on August 31, 2008 by graham

We are puzzled by Professor Gordon MacKerron’s view that, in the light of the Environment Agency’s research, we should dispose of waste as quickly as possible (“Nuclear waste containers likely to fail”, 24 August). There are two important differences between … Continue reading →

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Uranium mines threatening long-term ecological catastrophe

Posted on July 23, 2008 by graham

Gremlins must have entered Sarah Arnott’s article (“Rolls-Royce eyes cut of £50bn nuclear market”, 17 July) for her to write, “In the face of growing pressure to replace existing dirty power sources with environmentally friendly alternatives, nuclear is firmly back … Continue reading →

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Tom Tuohy Obituary

Posted on May 7, 2008 by graham

The main claim to fame of Tom Tuohy, who has died in Australia aged 90, was his bravery in dousing the worst accident in British atomic history. In October 1957, he was deputy works manager at Windscale, the plutonium production … Continue reading →

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