Raising Funds to Stop Lake District Coast Sub-Sea Nuclear Dump
- wastwater1
- Apr 6
- 5 min read
Well here we go again! If anyone can help please do – no matter how small the donation or by sharing the crowdfund ……..
Here it is – and pasted below
About Me
I am an oldish wildlife artist from Cumbria. I founded Radiation Free Lakeland a volunteer group in 2008 to fight the plan to dump nuclear waste under the Lake District.
We fought and won that plan in 2013. That should have stopped plans to bury very hot nuclear wastes..
Why Is This Important
This crowdfund aims to raise enough funds to send out a leaflet direct to all 250,000 households explaining the importance of lobbying Cumberland Council to carry out a full debate and vote before going any further down the road to delivery of a “geological disposal facility” (nuclear dump) for hot nuclear wastes.
The bare minimum we would need is £1,800 and with your help we could just do this. We could stop the nuclear juggernaut in its tracks and protect the Lake District coast from becoming the world’s biggest, leakiest nuclear sacrifice zone.
The plan stopped in 2013 has returned with a more dangerous, more cunning and much more difficult to fight development than ever before. Planning rules, “process” and even council boundaries have been redrawn to smooth the way to a massive, up to 50km (6,500 acre), hot nuclear dump under the sea. Onshore there would be mine shafts, nuclear sprawl, rock spoil, armed police and more. This would continue for 150+ years at a 1km square ie 250 acre site on the Lake District coast (in the Gosforth/Seascale or Millom/Haverigg area). Given the nuclear industry’s reputation for mission creep the 1km onshore site would expand.
The Lake District – a vintage postcard
Dumped Democracy
In a blatant disregard for democracy this plan for the biggest infrastructure project EVER in the UK and the ONLY plan to use sub-sea geology as a heat sink for fiercely hot nuclear wastes in the WORLD, is trundling along on the say so of JUST FOUR Cumberland councillors.
Unlike a solar or wind farm or even a conservatory there has been no full council debate or vote before launching into formal and financially lucrative (£millions a year) “partnership” with the developers Nuclear Waste Services (a limited liability entirely government owned company).
I have just launched a petition calling on Cumberland Council to convene a belated special meeting of the Full Council to debate and vote upon whether or not to continue engaging with the “process” to “deliver a geological disposal facility” for very hot nuclear wastes under the sea.
We need to ensure as many people in Cumberland as possible have the opportunity to sign the petition.
This crowdfund aims to raise enough funds to send out a leaflet direct to all 250,000 households explaining the importance of lobbying Cumberland Council to carry out a full debate and vote before going any further down the road to delivery of a geological disposal facility for hot nuclear wastes.
The bare minimum we would need is £1,800 and with your help we could just do this. We could stop the nuclear juggernaut in its tracks and protect the Lake District coast from becoming the world’s biggest, leakiest nuclear sacrifice zone.
More information and Background:
Legally developers of new nuclear must prove that they have a “final solution’ for the heat generating wastes they produce. “There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of long-lived, highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future.(Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, 1976, p. 131),”
Reasonable doubts about very long term containment exist by the leaky bucket load.
The following are just a small sample of ongoing high level and critically important research projects….
Radioactive Gas An overview of gas research in support of the UK geological disposal programme. Gases will be generated in waste packages during their transport to a geological disposal facility (GDF), this generation will continue during GDF operations and after GDF closure. The range of gases produced will include flammable, radioactive and chemotoxic species. These must be managed to ensure safety during transport and operations, and the post-closure consequences need to be understood. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/mineralogical-magazine/article/an-overview-of-gas-research-in-support-of-the-uk-geological-disposal-programme/8F268D9BF5D5AE19BFA466B70F2D5B66
Understanding gas transport properties in mudstone. This current project is underway and will produce results that will facilitate the modelling of gas transport surrounding a geological disposal facility.. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/collaborate/disposal-of-nuclear-waste/
Onkalo Research Site Finland, the underground rock characterization facility in Olkiluoto, as part of the project “rock matrix Retention PROperties” (REPRO). The research site is located at a depth of 420 meters close to the repository site and the aim is to study the diffusion and sorption properties of radionuclides in the rock matrix in real in situ conditions..https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/nuclear-waste-disposal/research
Long Term Research Programme for geological disposal of radioactive waste Work Programme 2020- 25 COVRA in collaboration with Technopolis Group https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347836713_long-term_research_programme_for_geological_disposal_of_radioactive_waste
Bentonite Erosion in a High Temperature Environment Understanding processes that could affect bentonite clay, and their potential significance, warrant further research studies – could such processes affect the bentonite’s long-term stability?https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bentonite-in-a-high-temperature-environment-bentonite-erosion
Thermal Expansion of Engineering Materials and Surrounding Rocks. The heat released from the disposal of High-Heat-Generating Waste (HHGW) in a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) will result in an increase in temperature, and therefore thermal expansion of both the engineering materials and surrounding rocks. The changes to the stress state arising from the thermal expansion of these materials, restrained by the surrounding rock mass, could affect several of the Thermal, Hydraulic, and Mechanical (THM) processes that operate after closure of a GDF. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013795223003058
International Research to Test Bentonite. Important roles of underground research laboratories for the geological disposal of radioactive wastes: an international perspective. For example, an experiment to test the in situ behaviour of bentonite will aim to expand the scientific knowledge on bentonite and sealing systems. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/SP536-2022-97
Investigating the Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Evolution of UK GDF. Investigating the thermo-hydro-mechanical evolution of a UK geological disposal facility due to disposal of high-heat-generating wastes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0013795223003058
Tectonics, Seismicity, Volcanism. Tectonic and climatic considerations for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste: A UK perspective..Key processes considered in this paper include those which result from plate tectonics, such as seismicity and volcanism, as well as climate-related processes, such as erosion, uplift and the effects of glaciation.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969716314632
Decay heat released from radioactive waste residing in a future geological disposal facility (GDF) poses many challenges, including long-term geological integrity and high temperature gradients in the rock. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245190492400708X
Heat Generating Radioactive Waste in Clay Formations THM-modelling benchmark initiative on the effects of temperature on the disposal of heat-generating radioactive waste in clayformations https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11440-024-02502w
Extremophilic Microbial Metabolism and Radioactive Waste Disposal..Of particular interest are sulphate-reducing bacteria (SRB), which produce the corrosive species hydrogen sulphide that may compromise metal waste container integrity https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10577106/
Mining Induced Seismicity Impact of mining-induced seismicity on land subsidence occurrence. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425723004868#:~:text=Mining%2Dinduced%20seismicity%20can%20damage,prediction%20capabilities%2C%20and%20associated%20consequences
The Danger of Coal Mining-Induced Earthquakes (the same tunnel boring machines would be used for gdf) https://www.azomining.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1617
Reactivation and Mineralisation Associated with the Lake District Boundary Fault https://www.dur.ac.uk/media/durham-university/departments-/earth-sciences/mscr2024/LDFz_KM_MScR_24.pdf
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