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| 26/10/06 Government decision to entrust NDA with waste disposal ‘plain stupid and probably unworkable’. 26/10/2006 17:14:49 Following the announcement (25th October) by Environment Secretary David Milliband that ‘the responsibility for securing geological disposal of waste should fall to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’, local pressure group CORE has branded the decision as plain stupid and probably unworkable. |
| 16/10/06 BNG, Guilty of ‘Serious Faults and Failures’, Fined £500,000 for THORP Accident. 16/10/2006 19:25:48 At Carlisle Crown Court today, British Nuclear Group (BNG) was fined £500,000 for the accident in April last year at Sellafield’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP). |
| 20/4/06 THORP Accident Anniversary – Problems, Power Stations and Prosecutions. 24/04/2006 11:45:03 One year after it was forced to shut down following a major accident (20th April 2005), Sellafield’s Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (THORP) remains idle and facing a series of major hurdles before any restart is possible. An original restart date of December 2005 has been retarded a number of times and now stands at ‘Summer 2006’, though no official decision has yet been made on whether the plant should re-open at all. |
| 3/10/05 THORP – Extended Shut-Down. 03/10/2005 14:54:26 British Nuclear Group’s (BNG) lame-duck reprocessing plant THORP is likely to remain closed until March next year. |
| 31/3/04 THORP – 10 spluttering years of failure for BNFL 31/03/2004 17:17:04 Ten years ago to the day, BNFL’s pride and joy, the £multi--billion THORP plant (Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant) started processing the first of 7000 tonnes of irradiated nuclear fuel. With orders secured largely from overseas customers in advance of the plant’s opening, THORP was to make the company a profit of £500M |
| 02/03/03 Sellafield MOX Plant in Contract Trouble 03/03/2003 10:41:28 Local group CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has learned from an unamed source at the plant that the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) has come close to losing its initial MOX fuel contract because the agreed delivery date can no longer be met. |
| 26/02/03 Customers at war with BNFL & THORP 26/02/2003 15:41:06 Angry overseas customers are threatening to pull out of their contracts with the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield because of BNFL’s attempts to impose stringent ‘cost- escalating adjustments’ to their contracts. |
| 23/12/02 Luke-warm MOX acceptance by Sweden 23/12/2002 17:37:49 The Swedish Government has reluctantly given approval to the Oskarshamn power station to use MOX fuel produced at the Sellafield MOX plant (SMP). The decision follows earlier pressure and damage claims amounting to around £10M against the Swedish Government by the power station’s owners if a licence to use MOX fuel at Oskarshamn was not granted. |
| 20/12/01 Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) 20/12/2001 17:10:07 The BNFL press statement today describing the belated introduction of plutonium into the Sellafield MOX plant as being ‘the best possible christmas present’ has been likened by CORE to a christmas cracker joke in the worst possible taste for West Cumbria. |
| 14/11/01 Held over a barrel by BNFL, British Energy slams reprocessing 14/11/2001 17:51:24 THORP’s overall largest reprocessing customer has called for an immediate moratorium on any further reprocessing of its spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield. |
| 4/10/01 Ministers’ Decision on SMP ‘Dangerous and Disgraceful’ 04/10/2001 15:04:07 CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has roundly condemned the decision by Ministers to allow production of nuclear weapons useable plutonium fuel at BNFL’s £250M loss-making Sellafield MOX Plant as being dangerous and disgraceful. |
| 21/9/01 BNFL forced to close Sellafield reprocessing plants. 21/09/2001 18:19:57 Contradicting an official company statement in this week’s Sellafield Newsletter, sources inside Sellafield have confirmed to CORE that the THORP reprocessing plant has been closed down because levels of liquid High Level Wastes (HLW) have reached the upper limit imposed by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) – and not ‘ for routine maintenance ’. It is understood that Magnox reprocessing in B205 has also been closed down |
| 24/6/01 Troubles in store for beleaguered THORP concealed from customers. 25/06/2001 14:19:59 A report by CORE [Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment] , including as yet unpublished BNFL documents on Sellafield’s radioactive discharges, reveals that overseas customers with reprocesing contracts for THORP have been misled by BNFL into believing that their spent fuel contracts will be completed by March 2005. |
| 14/5/01 BNFL close to breaching contracts through failure of THORP and Vitrification. 14/05/2001 15:18:32 Angry Overseas customers for THORP’s Baseload, highly critical of the plant’s poor performance and that of the Waste Vitrification Plant (WVP) have slammed the company for being unresponsive to their concerns, unwilling to help resolve them and close to breaching terms of the contracts. |
| 10/5/01 Chernobyl Study supports the ‘Gardner’ Parental Preconceptual Radiation Theory. 10/05/2001 18:29:35 A report published by the Royal Society has revealed that children born to fathers employed as ‘liquidators’ during the 1986 Chernobyl accident show a 7-fold increase in mutation rate of DNA. |
| 30/4/01 CORE condemns resumption of German nuclear waste imports. 01/05/2001 11:17:08 Local pressure group CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has today condemned the resumed import by BNFL of five more transport flasks containing spent nuclear fuel waste from the Neckarwestheim and Biblis power stations in Germany. |
| 15/1/01 Depleted Uranium. 16/01/2001 16:36:35 BNFL’s Covert Contribution Cover-Up. |
| 13/9/00 BNFL Ashamed of Annual Accounts 15/09/2000 16:17:57 BNFL has gone to considerable lengths to keep the public in the dark about the true financial plight of the company. |
| 19/7/00 Blair’s misplaced support for BNFL a retrograde step for West Cumbria 19/07/2000 15:51:31 Following yesterday’s meeting between the Prime Minister and local members of the Sort Out Sellafield team, local pressure group CORE has condemned Tony Blair’s willingness to act as a BNFL tout for securing new business for the company on his forthcoming trip to Japan. |
| 13/7/00 First the saboteurs and now the gunmen at Sellafield. 19/07/2000 15:40:11 Following BNFL’s admission of sabotage at its Sellafield Vitrification Plant earlier this year, information has been received by CORE that workers at the THORP reprocessing plant are taking guns into the plant for ‘target practice’. |
| 30/6/00 UK determined to retain ‘Dirty old man of Europe’ tag. 30/06/2000 10:59:07 A decision at Copenhagen yesterday by members of the OSPAR commission to give priority attention to moving away from reprocessing and towards the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel was shunned by the UK and French governments. |
| 31/3/00 THORP Misses Targets 31/03/2000 18:00:12 In evidence to the Trade & Industry Select Committee yesterday, BNFL Chairman Hugh Collum confirmed that THORP had reprocessed over 800 tonnes of spent fuel this financial year (ending 31st March 2000). |
| Sabotage at Sellafield Vitrification Plant. 08/03/2000 18:07:20 BNFL has confirmed that damage has been inflicted by saboteurs on equipment at the Vitrification Plant |
| 7/3/00 Sellafield Sabotage 07/03/2000 18:42:08 Saboteurs have struck in Sellafield’s Vitrification plant where highly radioactive liquid wastes from reprocessing are turned into glass form. |
| 18/2/00 BNFL’s MOX Demonstration Facility demonstrates a seedy underworl d of falsification and subterfuge at Sellafield. 18/02/2000 16:59:45 In one of three damning reports issued today, Inspectors from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) have identified years of widespread manipulation of quality assurance data for plutonium-based MOX fuel manufactured at Sellafield. |
| 31/1/00 Final act for NIREX. 31/01/2000 16:26:25 Nuclear waste agency NIREX's last act in West Cumbria. |
| Human Rights Award for CORE. 31/01/2000 14:46:02 CORE will be travelling to Japan to receive a Human Rights award at Tokyo on 18th December. |
| 16/8/99. CORE Demands Retraction From BNFL’s Principal Research Scientist. 31/01/2000 14:33:18 CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has today written to Dr R Wakeford, BNFL’s Principal Research Scientist demanding a retraction of statements made by him this morning in a Radio Cumbria interview. |
| 16/8/99. CORE describes theoretical virus as yet another regurgitated red-herring. 31/01/2000 14:30:30 CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment) has questioned the credibility of ‘eminent’ cancer specialist Sir Richard Doll for his current acceptance of an unsubstatiated theory which he has twice rejected in the past. |
| 19/7/99. Greenpeace makes BNFL MOX ships miss tide. 31/01/2000 14:27:26 In a sickening and shameful spectacle of bully-boy tactics, BNFL last night turned Barrow docklands and surrounding areas into a militarised zone. |
| 1/7/99. BNFL Ship Crews Demanding Danger Money for Japanese MOX Transport. 31/01/2000 14:24:49 A document in CORE’s possession shows that the Union representing the crews of the PNTL (Pacific Nuclear Transport Lmited) ships Pacific Pintail and Pacific Teal are seeking huge wage increases to compensate the crews during the transport of MOX fuel from Sellafield to Japan |
| 27/3/99. THORP - Last chance of success blown up the chimney. 31/01/2000 14:21:49 THORP is not only well behind BNFL’s orignal reprocessing schedule but also faces continuing operational problems which put their target of reprocessing 7000 tonnes in 10 years (the ‘baseload’ contract period) completely out of reach. |
| 24/3/99. Eight Lords a Leaping – Backwards. 31/01/2000 14:18:59 Local anti-nuclear group CORE (Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment), in condemning the overall findings of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on The Management of Nuclear Waste, has described the Lords’ recommendations as retrograde and poorly informed. |
| 1/2/99. THORP on verge of second extended shut-down as workers complain of plant safety compromises by BNFL. 31/01/2000 14:11:08 BNFL’s public announcements about the blockage are at complete odds with the whistleblowers’ testimony |
| 19/1/99. Arming of BNFL ships confirmed by Government and condemned by CORE 31/01/2000 14:03:50 Confirmation yesterday from Eneregy Minister John Battle that the BNFL ships to be used in transporting plutonium fuel from Sellafield to Japan this spring will be armed has been roundly condemned by CORE |
| 14/1/99. German Reprocessing Contracts Axed 31/01/2000 13:59:36 CORE welcomes last night’s decision by the new German Government to ban further reprocessing of their spent nuclear fuel at Sellafield as from 1st January 2000. |
| 12/1/00. Sellafield shamed into taking back rejected plutonium fuel from Japan. 31/01/2000 11:38:28 BNFL’s Japanese MOX fuel customer Kansai Electric has confirmed that it has washed its hands of the 8 MOX fuel assemblies fabricated at Sellafield’s MOX Demonstration Facility (MDF) and controversially shipped to Japan last summer |
| 16/3/99. CORE honoured in Ireland. 27/08/1999 10:32:24 CORE campaigner Janine Allis-Smith travelled to Ireland last week to receive an award from the Peace and Justice group of St Angela’s Convent School, Waterford. |