The Moorside plan is they say on hold this is not good enough it should be scrapped. As if the Moorside plan being merely on hold wasn’t bad enough, there is now a plan to reopen the dangerous old coal mine at Whitehaven. The proposed licenses for this would extend to within a mile or so of the Moorside site and Sellafield. This is bonkers. Fossil fuel extraction is known to cause earthquakes. As well as this, the nuclear fuel plant, Springfields, that would manufacture new high burn fuel for Moorside is just 5.33 miles from the frack site at Preston New Road. Again. What could go wrong? There has been no debate on this, no outrage, despite the very real possibility of fossil fuel extraction causing earthquakes with resulting damage to nuclear infrastructure and widespread radioactive pollution as we have seen from Fukushima
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