Anti-nuclear campaigners have welcomed news the last cargo of radioactive waste from Wylfa power station on Anglesey has been transported through Cheshire. The train, which carried the waste in steel flasks, regularly made its way through the county en route to the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria. It is has been running since the mid 1960s but has come to an end because the Wylfa nuclear power station has been decommissioned. In a statement, the Close Capenhurst group, whose main aim is to shut the Urenco-owned uranium enrichment plant at Capenhurst , said: “Concerning the last radioactive fuel rods transported by rail from Wylfa. “While we welcome the end of highly radioactive used fuel rods being transported from Wylfa via Chester and Crewe to Sellafield, we are still concerned about all the other nukiller fuel rods which are transported by DRS (Direct Rail Services) to Sellafield via nearby Crewe. “We will continue to campaign upon this issue, together with the movement of Uranium Hexafluoride (Hex) to and from Capenhurst by road while continuing to support the demand of PAWB – People Against Wylfa-B that No New Atomic Power Plant be built on Anglesey.”

Cheshire Live 26th Sept 2019 read more »

An Egremont-based nuclear firm has stepped in to help organisers of this weekend’s town’s crab fair at the 11th hour. James Fisher Nuclear was approached by organisers after one of the sponsors of tonight’s Dancing in the Street stage, had to pull out.

Carlisle News & Star 20th Sept 2019 read more »

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’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 »