Talk – Atomic Wastes Under Cumbria?” with Dr Ian Fairlie, an expert on radiation in the environment and Richard Outram of Nuclear Free Local Authorities 7-9pm on Saturday 11th May at Kendal Museum. This is one of the Events for Rock Solid? 2 - an exhibition in the People's Gallery looking at the geology, wildlife, history of the Lake District and its Coastal Fringe through the lens of the plan to use that geology to contain humanity's longest lasting legacy - nuclear wastes. The exhibition of paintings, photography, installations and archive material continues until 29th June - "beautiful, witty and yet unsettling" A selection of works in the exhibition from some of of Cumbria's best loved artists alongside international creators can be viewed here https://simplebooklet.com/thecatalogue#page=1 Or even better catch the exhibition while it is on until 29th June at https://kendalmuseum.org.uk/may-rock-solid-2-exhibition/ Useful links if you would like to get involved in protecting Cumbria (or Lincolnshire who are also in the frame). from the biggest and the most dangerous infrastructure project in the UK ... Lakes Against Nuclear Dump. www.lakesagainstnucleardump.com Nuclear Free Local Authorities www.nuclearpolicy.info Dr Ian Fairlie Independent Consultant on Radiation In the Environment www.ianfairlie.org South Copeland Against GDF. www.southcopelandagainstgdf.org.uk Guardians of the East Coast. www.gotec.org.uk

24th September 2018 New Horizons St. Anne’s were delighted to introduce Marianne Birkby from Radiation Free Lakeland. Tens of millions of gallons of water a day over the last 70 years have been used to cool nuclear wastes made near Preston and ‘stored’ at Sellafield… who knew? The Nuclear Industry has first and last dibs on our precious fresh water. According to the former National Rivers Authority – now the Environment Agency – Sellafield used 97 million litres of fresh water (25 million gallons) a day in 1993. Compare this with the fracking industry’s admittedly shocking water use: Cuadrilla said that fracking the two wells at Preston New Road, which is now expected to take place in late August or early September, would use up to 32,500 litres. That's a lot of water and quite rightly NGOs have been flagging this up. The silence has however been deafening over the far greater and ongoing freshwater use by the nuclear industry. Radiation Free Lakeland were keen to find out what the freshwater situation is today. Following Freedom of Information requests to track down this information, it was so heavily blacked out as to be illegible. But, what we can see through the redactions is mind-boggling... http://wildar4.wixsite.com/radiation-free-land This video was produced by 'Time to Wake Up' video productions. Time to wake up video productions is geared to producing Professional Video productions but NOT at Professional prices. Everything from Corporate and personal presentations to concerts, recitals and outdoor activities… no job is too small! Hiring professional videographers, equipment and production teams is beyond the reach of most people, groups and businesses… Time to wake up productions is a solution that brings a professional touch at affordable prices. We even offer discounts to community groups and non-profit organisations. http://www.timetowakeup.co.uk

New Horizons host a talk by Marianne B on the surprising connections between coal and nuclear in Cumbria. A Government-appointed nuclear waste advisor is set to drill the first deep earthquake-inducing coal mine in 30 years in the sub-sea area off the coast of Whitehaven. This coal mine would be just five miles from the already highly vulnerable and leaking “state of the art” Sellafield site. Extraction of the coal would be carried out by massive remote-controlled machines with the cut coal transported to conveyors using mobile shuttle cars. Mark Kirkbride, the coal mine boss, knows that subsidence and earthquakes are likely – his evidence to the public inquiry said that this would be “mitigated” not prevented. The coal boss is also advising UK Government on the construction, costings and so on of a 1000 metre deep, 25km square and very hot (100 degrees c +) nuclear dump euphemistically called a Geological Disposal Facility. The most expedient area in the frame is near Sellafield – adjacent to Kirkbride’s coal mine. An “exceptional” accident at Sellafield, caused by Mark Kirkbride’s coal mine or by construction of an even bigger void, the deep nuclear dump would have the potential to make huge swaths of the UK uninhabitable and contaminate much of Europe and the World. How have we ended up with an earthquake-inducing coal boss with coal mine business interests next to Sellafield advising the UK Government on deep nuclear dump plans? It is no accident that a new facility in Whitehaven is the first network of robotics and artificial intelligence collaboration hubs across the UK with “AI, data and robotics powered transformation for sustainable decommissioning in the nuclear sector and other industries.” Make no mistake… Cumbria is being prepped. The worst thing about Mark Kirkbride’s coal mine is not fossil fuel-induced climate change, it is the proximity to Sellafield, the world’s most dangerous nuclear waste site. Lakes Against Nuclear Dump website: https://www.lakesagainstnucleardump.com/ New Horizons https://www.newhorizonsstannes.com/ The video small clips of pathe-news footage included under fair use.

Speakers provide updates from other countries exploring or pursuing deep geological repositories for nuclear waste. Join this session to explore why the NWMO’s claim of an “international consensus” about nuclear waste burial is at best a consensus of the nuclear club and their supporters, while opposition persists in response to actual industry burial plans. Speakers: • Miles Goldstick, Sweden • Marianne Birkby, UK • Tim Judson, US Week Three of Nuclear Waste Online 2023 webinar series. Go to www.knownuclearwastec.ca to learn more.

Like Terminator the Government Plan for a so called "Geological Disposal Facility" ie deep nuclear dump, keeps coming back despite Cumbria having said NO repeatedly because of the complex and fractured geology. Last Friday 18th June 2021 Lakes Against Nuclear Dump (a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign) met with local people living adjacent to Millom Deer Park/Ghyll Scuar Quarry. Locals had not heard that the Quarry had been put forward by a former Sellafield manager as a candidate site for the entrance to a "Geological Disposal Facility". A GDF is the plan to dump heat generating wastes deep underground, in this case under the Irish Sea Aggregate Industries who have a lease on the Quarry until 2045 have had nothing to do with the proposal that their quarry site (which has been a good, if dusty and noisy, neighbour to local people for many years and looked after the adjacent ancient woodland ) should end up being the above surface facilities for a deep nuclear dump for the most dangerous and long lived wastes known to man. 2045 is about the time when Govnt want to start to 'implement" the diabolic plan. All the people we spoke to locally are incredulous and angry that Radioactive Waste Management should even consider the southernmost tip of Copeland, which is as near to Morecambe as it is to Sellafield, as a candidate site for a GDF entrance. Equally there is astonishment that the few people on the Allerdale and Copeland “Working Groups” are claiming to speak for the whole of Cumbria not to mention Cumbria’s neighbours across the Irish Sea, the Duddon Estuary and Morecambe Bay - all of which (and more) would be impacted by the plan for a GDF. Cumbria has already said no repeatedly to the plan, the geology has not changed. We believe the “Working Groups” are looking to move to the next stage of “Community Partnership” - what “Community” are they representing ? Does that “Community” know that intentional burial and designed leakage of nuclear wastes not to mention heat generating wastes ( “up to” 100 degrees C ) under the sea is in breach of a number of international treaties? for more info please check out our campaign page https://www.lakesagainstnucleardump.com/ NOTE: Great News that Ghyll Scaur Quarry has now been "removed" from consideration for access for a deep nuclear dump (along with the area that is being considered for inclusion in a possible National Park extension). However that leaves EVERYWHERE else. No Geo Nuke Dump - anywhere! https://copeland.workinginpartnership.org.uk/working-group-area/

Radioactive Waste Management are the latest in the long line of UK government quango's with the remit to "Deliver" a deep nuclear dump. Cumbria has already said no repeatedly - but the law has been changed to remove Cumbria County Council's right of veto (CCC have previously rejected the plan multiple times). This time any one can volunteer anywhere and all there needs to be is a 'test of public support' what that test is remains unexplained. The few "leaders" on the "Working Groups" of Allerdale and Copeland do not represent the public view on the unwanted, scientifically unworkable and deeply dangerous Nuclear Dump Plan! There is a petition by Lakes Against Nuclear Dump (a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign) To: Prime Minister of the UK Stop “Delivery” of a Geological Nuclear Dump Under the Irish Sea or Anywhere Else. Instead of bribing communities with £Millions to accept the plan to dump many decades worth of hot, high level nuclear wastes deep underground, we ask that you stop the production of ever more dangerous radioactive wastes, place a moratorium on the GDF “Delivery” plans and put all effort into containment ( not “disposal”), above ground where the waste can be monitored and repackaged as necessary. Continuing with an aggressive and scientifically inadequate push for “Delivery of a Geological Disposal Facility” merely in order to justify a new nuclear build agenda is the wrong thing to do. THE PETITION CAN BE SIGNED & SHARED HERE https://www.lakesagainstnucleardump.com/petition

Nikki Clarke@Bridgewater Say No to New Nuclear,Hinkley C,Oct 6th. nikkinomad@facebook.com http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/ http://southwestagainstnuclear.wordpress.com/

The Worlds nuclear waste burial proposal for Western Australia. Accidentally released in December 1998. Still on the drawing boards, Arius of Switzerland still considers Australia as the best location for a nuclear dump.