{"id":1082,"date":"2020-05-17T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2020-05-17T09:28:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T09:28:39","slug":"issue-briefing-drigg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Issues Briefing \u2013 Drigg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drigg\" target=\"_blank\">Drigg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Drigg is one of the least known radioactive waste dumps.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During World War two it was an explosives factory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For a history of the explosives plant see: &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwemail.co.uk\/Cumbrian-coast-played-vital-role-in-explosives-production-for-Second-World-War-05fd13ea-0f9b-4804-94d3-4f34d4f22e1e-ds\" target=\"_blank\">Factories at Drigg and Sellafield made the high explosive TNT using a variety of potetntial dangerous chemical processes.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thousands of tons of Radioactive waste are now stored at<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/dir\/54.3807471,-3.4529511\/\/@54.3794603,-3.4487674,1798m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e3\" target=\"_blank\"> the site,<\/a> which is just 7 minutes by train from Sellafield, and runs along a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/go-outdoors\/walks\/drigg-dunes-cumbria\/\" target=\"_blank\">coastal walk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our concerns include the high possibility of flooding at the site, and how radioactivity could leak from the dump in to the environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>We have done some campaigning to stop more waste being dumped at the site, but what&#8217;s really needed is more people to take up this work.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RADIATION FREE LAKELAND<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The following links are to found upon the Radiation Free Lakeland website.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/20\/field-notes-from-thedelegated-decision-to-sweep-ever-more-nuclear-waste-under-the-west-coast-at-drigg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Field Notes from the\u201dDelegated Decision\u201d to Sweep Ever More Nuclear Waste Under the West Coast at Drigg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/04\/lock-the-gate-on-drigg-stop-the-open-door-policy-to-nuclear-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\">LOCK THE GATE ON DRIGG \u2013 STOP THE OPEN DOOR POLICY TO NUCLEAR WASTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/13\/groups-slam-plan-to-stack-shipping-containers-of-nuclear-waste-ever-higher-beside-the-irish-sea-near-drigg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Groups Slam Plan to Stack Shipping Containers of Nuclear Waste Ever Higher Beside the Irish Sea Near Drigg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&amp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2016\/08\/02\/drigg-decision-we-are-caught-in-a-trap-no-way-out-because-we-love-nuclear-waste-too-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DRIGG DECISION: \u2018We are Caught in a Trap, No Way Out, Because We Love Nuclear Waste Too Much\u2019 ?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drigg Drigg is one of the least known radioactive waste dumps. During World War two it was an explosives factory. For a history of the explosives plant see: &#8211; Factories at Drigg and Sellafield made the high explosive TNT using a variety of potetntial dangerous chemical processes. Thousands of tons of Radioactive waste are now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1082\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Issues Briefing \u2013 Drigg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-briefings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}