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Barrow

Conventional safety claims by Barrow’s nuclear shipping terminal found to be all at sea. In press statements made yesterday (17th September) by the two principal users/occupants of the Ramsden Dock nuclear shipping terminal – INS (International Nuclear Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and managers of nuclear transport contracts) and PNTL (Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited who operate the ships on behalf of INS – claim that the maritime terminal at Barrow-in-Furness has successfully completed 5,555 days ‘without a lost time accident’. The claim (see also https://www.in-cumbria.com/news/17908079.safety-milestone-nuclear-terminal-staff/ apparently calculated over 15 years, 3 months and 17 days of operation and covering non-radiological ‘safety at the terminal , in our offices, on board the vessels or wherever our colleagues are across the world …’ are, from memory, patently wrong and grossly misleading’ said Martin Forwood who, as Campaign Coordinator of local anti-nuclear group CORE, has routinely attended the Ramsden Dock Terminal Stakeholder Group (RDTSG) meetings for decades.

CORE 18th Sept 2019 read more »

Barrow

Barrow’s nuclear marine terminal has passed another milestone in its safety record. The facility, owned and run by International Nuclear Services, has successfully completed 5,555 days without a lost-time accident. That figures takes the terminal to 15 years, three months and 17 days without an incident that has led to a member of staff needing to take time off work.

In Cumbria 17th Sept 2019 read more »

Hinkley A

PLANS to transport nuclear waste through Bridgwater to Hinkley Point have been rejected by Somerset County Council. Bridgwater councillors Leigh Redman, Dave Loveridge and Brian Smedley were joined by Bridgwater & District Civic Society spokesman and former town clerk Alan Hurford to present a case to the Somerset County Council committee saying allowing the move would set a dangerous precedent of waste being brought in to the Hinkley site. Hinkley A owners Magnox applied for permission to transport a number of skips containing intermediate radioactive waste from Dungeness, Sizewell and Oldbury, through Bridgwater to their site at Hinkley Point, for processing and long-term storage. At the meeting Cllr Leigh Redman highlighted: “Back in 2005 this council agreed to allow two buildings to be built on the A station site. “It clearly states in the 2005 decision: ‘There shall be no radioactive waste imported from outside Hinkley A site; and only the waste that is in situ within the Hinkley A station shall be stored on the site. “What has changed? The answer is easy – nothing.” The committee rejected the Magnox application, stating there was a lack of need to change from the original conditions set out in 2005. Despite interjections from Magnox representatives and County Council legal officers, the vote was unanimous and cross-party to turn down the proposals for nuclear waste to travel from other sites through Bridgwater to be disposed of at Hinkley Point.

This is the West Country 5th Sept 2019 read more »

BBC 5th Sept 2019 read more »

Nuclear Convoy

On Wednesday a convoy carrying the warheads and detonators headed through Northamptonshire as it travelled from the Burghfield Atomic Weapons Establishment near Reading to Coulport, Scotland. On its way, the trucks headed through Brackley and Towcester along the A43, before turning onto the Northampton stretch of the M1 and travelling north.

Northampton Chronicle 12th July 2019 read more »

Waste Transport

The Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) has sent today its views on a planning application made by Magnox Sites Ltd / Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) permitting transports of intermediate level radioactive waste (ILW) from a number of Magnox sites to Hinkley Point A for interim storage. Magnox is seeking planning permission from Somerset County Council to move a small amount of waste to the Hinkley Point A (HPA) site for interim storage. The Company is asking for changes to the present legal situation to allow them to bring radioactive waste from other Magnox sites to the new Intermediate Waste Store being built at HPA. Magnox want to bring 110 Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) metal skips, cut up and delivered in 14 lorry loads. They say it will only take up the remaining 5% space of the store, with no room for any more. They say there is no room to build and expand the store for more waste. However, local resident campaign groups and the NFLA are concerned about the wording of the legal application which could, in theory, allow further imports beyond the proposed 14 lorry loads. Once a precedent has been set perhaps more waste imports could be proposed in future.

NFLA 4th July 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transports

Join us in opposing the continued radioactive cargo on our railways. We will be outside the Kingmoor depot, Carlisle on Saturday 20th July (times tbc) handing out leaflets and showing our opposition to this deadly cargo which is given a thick, choking veneer of respectability with this DRS Charity Open Day.

Radiation Free Lakeland 2nd July 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transports

The Bradwell Nuclear Transport Controversy. Regarding low level waste going to Drigg and Inbound ILW from Dungeness and Sizewell for storage at Bradwell. The Inbound ILW comes entirely by road, despite the existence of the Southminster Station Radioactive Waste Exchange Depot. The requirement to transport waste by rail doesn’t seem to be getting enforced.

BANNG 27th June 2019 read more »

Hinkley A – waste transport

THERE are two drop-in events being held on Tuesday, June 11 on proposals to transport nuclear waste through Bridgwater. Magnox Ltd currently operates the Hinkley Point A site near Stogursey, which includes a small area where nuclear waste is stored before being moved elsewhere for processing. The company has applied to Somerset County Council for permission to store waste from other nuclear power stations in the UK at the Hinkley site – which would involve moving it through Bridgwater on agreed routes.

This is the West Country 7th June 2019 read more »

Waste Transport

BRIDGWATER residents only have a few days to have their say on proposals to transport nuclear waste through their town. Magnox Ltd currently operates the Hinkley Point A site near Stogursey, which includes a small area where nuclear waste is stored before being moved elsewhere for processing. The company has applied to Somerset County Council for permission to store waste from other nuclear power stations at the Hinkley site – which would involve moving it through Bridgwater on agreed routes.

Bridgwater Mercury 30th May 2019 read more »

Nuclear Transport

Nuclear transportation at sea can be safely managed as long as shippers stringently comply with IMO and other international legislation, the head of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ) has advised. Fears over the transportation of nuclear cargoes through Caribbean waters, particularly as a result of the expansion of the Panama Canal, were addressed during lively debates at a well-attended conference organised by the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, recently. Rigorous international maritime legislation is in place to manage risk, ensure safety of life and protect the environment, explained Rear Admiral (ret’d) Peter Brady, MAJ Director General, during his keynote address.

Ship Management International 10th April 2019 read more »

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