New Years Eve Nuclear Waste Site Flood Alert Virtually Unreported

January 4, 2016

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Our thanks to Albert Froon in the UK for posting us details of the attached article from ‘The Ecologist’ which was published on New Years Eve and warns of possible dangers from flooding at the Drigg nuclear waste

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Not More Nuclear Nasties?

December 23, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Now there’s you thinking the only ‘nuclear nasties’ adjacent to us were either at Sellafield with its cracked ponds and iffy drainage or Heysham with its creaky old power station which is having the ‘service life’ rung out

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Parida Report Reinforces Need for Resilience in Nuclear Sea Transports

December 17, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE You may have forgotten the MV Parida (pictured below) we haven’t! It was a Danish registered ro-ro cargo vessel on passage from Scrabster in Scotland to Antwerp, Belgium carrying nuclear waste when it caught fire in October 2014.

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Aging Nuclear Transport is Well Past Its Sell By Date

December 17, 2015

What’s the difference between a ‘Pacific Pintail’ and an ‘Oceanic Pintail’? Answer nothing. It’s just when you need to carry nuclear waste around by sea and you can’t afford £44 million for a new purpose built transport you recommission one that was due

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ONR Respond on Heysham Nuclear Safety

November 26, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE A response to our query about safety issues at Heysham nuclear power station and the decision to continue its operation beyond its original safe operating date; https://www.celticleague.net/news/heysham-1-is-it-safe-nuclear-regulator-asked/ The correspondence is self explanatory as usual the Office for Nuclear

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Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations Are Cracking Up!

November 20, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE Cracks have been found in graphite bricks which line the reactor core at the Hunterston B nuclear power station in Ayrshire. EDF which operate the plant say the fault was detected during routine maintenance. They say: “The level

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Heavy Rain In Cumbria – Wash Day At Sellafield!

November 20, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There are several of the most severe categories of flood warnings issued for Cumbria today and study of the rainfall radar will show that the area is taking a battering and has been for over 24 hours. Along

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The Experiment

November 9, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE There are aspects of the British nuclear industry that are like a black comedy. A few years ago I learned that a UK train-spotters magazine openly published details of transports of nuclear waste. The guide called ‘Freightmaster’ provided

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Heysham 1: Is it Safe Nuclear Regulator Asked

November 2, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The Celtic League has written to the Acting Chief Executive of the Office of Nuclear Regulation querying the safety of continued operation of the Heysham 1 nuclear plant. Problems were indentified as long ago as 2007 with the

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Plaid Cymru Say Trident Cost Not Justifiable

October 27, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The news that the replacement of the United Kingdom’s Trident nuclear submarine missile deterrent will cost a staggering 167 billion has provoked a strong reaction from Plaid Cymru (the Party of Wales) Plaid Treasury spokesman, Jonathan Edwards MP

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