We can not view URENCO and Capenhurst in isolation.
The activities of URENCO at Capenhurst are a key part of the way in the Nukiller industry operates, and need to be curtailed as a part of the campaign to close down all existing and proposed new reactors.
That is why we are equally concerned about what goes on at Whitehaven, Barrow,
Drigg, Springfield, and all the other existing nukiller plants.
This extends to a the mining of and transport of Uranium following through to that of dealing with Nukiller waste.
Given the size of all these problems we need to think about and commit ourselves to some very long term campaigning.
DRS
With the current closure of many parts of the West Cumbrian Railway line for repairs which started of late, we have not seen any reports of any waste trains going to or from Sellafield/Windscale.
The latest news report states that the tunnel under Whitehaven will be closed upon sometime in the spring of 2026.
It might therefore be expected that a lot of such flask movements will take place towards until the year.
DRS at 30
DRS marked a 30th anniversary during september.
URENCO and Capenhurst News
Slovakia and Urenco sign enriched uranium supply contract
Other News
Nukiller Waste
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee finds that the removal of nuclear waste from ageing buildings at Sellafield – the UK’s most
hazardous nuclear site – is progressing too slowly.
Letter to Nuclear Issues Board of Cumberland Council,
Plutonium, Public Money and a Perilous Nuclear Dump on the Lake District Coast, a Letter to Cumberland Council’s “Nuclear Issues Board”
Dungeness
Fire safety failings have been uncovered at the Dungeness plant in Kent.
Costing Sizewell C
The public could be expected to pay for up to £12bn of decommissioning costs
of the Sizewell C
Coming events
Future Actions
Leafleting about the DRS Nukiller Waste Trains
Some Nukiller Waste Trains leafleting has done in Warrington on several
occasions since July and more will be done over the next few months.
We would like to undertake more leafleting at such stations such as Preston, and Wigan.
We need more activists in order to make these events happen.