About Us

The much loved character of Cumbria has been shaped by man's ability to extract an existence from the land and sea, living in harmony with a rich variety of wildlife. Fells, estuaries, lakes and woodlands are the backdrop to a setting enjoyed by countless generations.

Who could foresee that this playground for yesterdays children would harbour an invisible danger.

The water we drink, the food we eat along with the very air we breath, now all bear the hallmark of man-made nuclear pollution. The fabric of Cumbria that has sustained all forms of life for so long is now tainted.

Birds, animals, plants and marine life, along with people, all have to live within this changed environment. Like our own generations yet to come, they depend upon us to safeguard their future!!!




	Stop reprocessing
	Stop foreign waste imports & exports
	Stop arial and sea discharges
	Expose health damage
	Prevent Cumbria becoming the nuclear dustbin for the world

CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) started life in 1980 as the Barrow Action Group to oppose the import of foreign fuel through the port of Barrow-in-Furness for reprocessing at Sellafield. Since then CORE has widened its campaign remit to cover all aspects of Sellafield's operations including the radioactive sea and air discharges, the resultant contamination of the local environment, and the health detriment to local communities and wildlife.

CORE attends public meetings, organises conferences and debates, gives presentations to schools, universities and other organisations, and since 1990 has conducted its own 'Alternative Tour of Sellafield' which highlights some of the local problems that British Nuclear Fuels would rather ignore.

Major campaign commitments over the last decade have been the fight against the operation of the new reprocessing plant THORP and the successful battle against the proposal by nuclear waste agency NIREX to site a deep underground waste dump on the edge of the Lake District National Park, in which to dispose of UK and foreign waste. The campaign against the fabrication of Mixed Oxide (MOX) plutonium fuel and its global transport is ongoing.

CORE is a non-political, non profit-making organisation, raising funds through membership fees, public donations, grants and consultancy fees. The Group, with two full-time workers and several volunteer workers based in their Barrow-in-Furness office, work closely with other local, national and international environmental and anti-nuclear groups.