Radiation Free Lakeland was formed in December 2008 by artist Marianne Birkby - also known as Mrs Bennett a campaigner with South Lakeland Friends of the Earth. South Lakeland Friends of the Earth (SLFoE) were instrumental in providing information to Cumbria County Council on the health risks of a high level nuclear waste dump. SLFoE invited Dr Ian Fairlie, who served on the Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE), to address Cumbria County Council's inner Cabinet . Despite this on Tuesday the 9th December 2008 the Lake District was offered up as a nuclear dump. This decision was taken by Cumbria County Council's inner Cabinet in a move that was described as "a negation of democracy" by outraged County Councillors who were denied a vote on "the most important decision we will ever take."
Radiation Free Lakeland was formed as a result - with one aim - to end the radioactive contamination of the Lake District.
The "without comittment expression of interest" follows a government white paper inviting local authorities to volunteer to host the burial of high level nuclear waste in return for investment in roads, schools and other public services. Only Cumbria has "expressed an interest." Without a new high-level waste dump the government's plan for new atomic power stations would be impossible.
Radiation Risks from a Nuclear Dump
Radiation risks from a nuclear repository would be of a greater magnitude than that of a nuclear power station with plans by the US Environmental Protection Agency to set radiation doses after disposal of spent fuel at least twice as high as recommended exposures from operating nuclear facilities in the UK now.
New Research Shows Links to Cancers and Nuclear Installations
The KiKK studies (a German acronym for Childhood Cancer in the Vicinity of Nuclear Power Plants), whose results were published this year in the International Journal of Cancer (vol 122, p 721) and the European Journal of Cancer (vol 44, p 275) show higher incidences of cancers and a stronger association with nuclear installations than all previous research reports. Including a 60 per cent increase in solid cancers and a 117 per cent increase in leukaemia among young children living near all 16 large German nuclear facilities between 1980 and 2003. The most striking finding was that those who developed cancer lived closer to nuclear power plants than randomly selected controls. Children living within 5 kilometres of the plants were more than twice as likely to contract cancer as those living further away although effects are discernible up to 50 miles. This finding has been accepted by the German government.
Listen to what the lady's trying to tell you before it's too late, the Bankers control far more than the banking industry in old Cumberland! :eek
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2. 02-09-2010 09:19
Duncan (D.Ball) who was a foreman at Sellafield died not long after writing that comment. He never did receive "compensation" from the Sellafield worker scheme - Compensation Scheme for Radiation Linked Diseases
Here is a poem of Duncan's
Ticking boxes.
The boxes are ticked by those men who’ve been picked, from the keenest of yes men there, for checks done each day so the bosses can say, that their workforce takes extra care. But the bosses were tricked by some men that they picked for a job that all liars can do composing old fiction that begs a conviction for writing what still isn’t true.
But on they run with boxes ticked, while welding’s cracked and something’s dripped, inside the cell where Foremen looked: for hours on end in ‘Logs and books recording all the names of crooks who wouldn’t see and didn’t look, behind those windows two foot thick, where fell a steady drip of ticks.
Soon crystals formed as crystals do, from tiny holes where pressure grew, a mist of droplets spewing out, a sight that should have brought a shout from foremen ticking thrice each day when signing names for easy pay: the country paying bigger lumps to lazy men for growing dumps.
Some columns formed with lost control, as Foremen ticked and shirkers stole five minutes here then hours there forsaking safety's measured stare for extra tea and flashy things, that overtime some boxes bring with elements whose mass can change the genes of everything in range. Trapped outside their ticking box where spillage flows like molten rocks with dangers left to grow unseen until one idle Chargehand's scream said “Shut it down and do it quick before we’re all in deepest shit there’s been another situation, critical to every nation.”
