Dear Friends,

From Fukushima to Sellafield – there is no “away” for radioactive wastes.

Sellafield boasts that it is making the most hazardous place in Europe “safe” and “clean” by its decommissioning work. What this means in reality is the dispersal of nuclear wastes to the environment. The seismic blasting was the first step in the push to get shot of high level nuclear wastes under the seabed off the Lake District coast in a so called “geological disposal facility” aka hot nuclear dump.

 
 In order to get shot of its less hot but still hazardous decommissioning wastes on site that include the infamous Windscale chimney Sellafield have applied to the Environment Agency for a “Permit Variation.”

 
The Environment Agency is now consulting on a wide range of unrelated asks from Sellafield in the same Permit- a nuclear waste dumping “smorgasbord’ which includes a new discharge to the river Calder, a increase in the coastal radioactive landfill on site which includes “hotspots” of tritium, a new chimney stack for radioactive gases and the removal of reporting limits on a number of radionuclides because it is “too complicated’.

 
The issues are serious enough to be separate consultations rather than lumped together under misleading headings- each should be a standalone application from Sellafield rather than lumped together in a single Permit Variation.

 
Please write to the Environment Agency with a letter of opposition to Sellafield’s “big ask” to dump its decommissioning radioactive wastes to air, river, landfill and sea.   By email to [email protected]  

There is more info here

Many Thanks!

Marianne