{"id":1384,"date":"2025-06-17T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:21:04","slug":"countering-capenhurst-early-summer-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Countering Capenhurst \u2013 Early Summer 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This issue of Countering Capenhurst is very much a news summary as we look at just what needs to be worked upon over the coming months.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>DRS Flask Movements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On January 14th four flasks were taken via Crewe and Ullverston to Sellafield.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>While on January 16th two DRS engines went from Crewe to Sizewell and back again.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Then on February 25th three flasks which were taken along the same route.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On March 29th a single flask was moved from Sellafield via Carlisle to Crewe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At 08.00 on April 10th a single flask was seen heading north towards Sellafield.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On April 24th four flasks were taken to Sellafield from Crewe, while a single flask was taken back to crewe that afternoon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>NDA Marked All Fools Day<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On All Fools Day (April 1st) it was the 20th anniversary of the NDA [ Nuclear Decommissioning Authority ] .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This is how the nukiller industry described it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niauk.org\/nda-celebrates-20-years-of-making-the-nation-safer\">https:\/\/www.niauk.org\/nda-celebrates-20-years-of-making-the-nation-safer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Windscale Site Crash Warning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has issued a warning over a nukiller waste rail crash at the Sellafield \/ Windscake site.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74m1rxynkxo\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c74m1rxynkxo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Cumbrian Coast Line to close for 23 days<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Network Rail has given advance warning that there will be a 23-day closure of the Cumbrian Coast Line between Sellafield and Workington from Saturday, 30th August.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The closure is on the line has been affected by water contaminated with ochre from abandoned mines flowing through the Bransty tunnel at Whitehaven before it is discharged into Whitehaven Harbour.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-railadvent wp-block-embed-railadvent\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"saGwhYdGoL\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/2025\/03\/cumbrian-coast-line-to-close-for-23-days.html\">Cumbrian Coast Line to close for 23 days<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Cumbrian Coast Line to close for 23 days&#8221; &#8212; RailAdvent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/2025\/03\/cumbrian-coast-line-to-close-for-23-days.html\/embed#?secret=tQ3rCaklXO#?secret=saGwhYdGoL\" data-secret=\"saGwhYdGoL\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Capenhurst News Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Uranium\u2019s Poison Power in Leafy Cheshire\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fukushima Remembered at URENCO, Capenhurst.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-radiation-free-lakeland wp-block-embed-radiation-free-lakeland\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XUTJUKl7wz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2025\/03\/05\/uraniums-poison-power-in-leafy-cheshire\/\">Uranium\u2019s Poison Power in Leafy Cheshire\u00a0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Uranium\u2019s Poison Power in Leafy Cheshire\u00a0&#8221; &#8212; RADIATION FREE LAKELAND\" src=\"https:\/\/mariannewildart.wordpress.com\/2025\/03\/05\/uraniums-poison-power-in-leafy-cheshire\/embed\/#?secret=vL09eGbj17#?secret=XUTJUKl7wz\" data-secret=\"XUTJUKl7wz\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Costain lands three-year deal with Urenco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.placenorthwest.co.uk\/costain-lands-three-year-deal-with-urenco\/<br>Westinghouse Urenco Deal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Westinghouse and Urenco Sign First Agreement to Support Fuel for eVinci&#x2122; Microreactors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/info.westinghousenuclear.com\/news\/westinghouse-and-urenco-sign-first-agreement-to-supportfuel-for-evinci-microreactors\">https:\/\/info.westinghousenuclear.com\/news\/westinghouse-and-urenco-sign-first-agreement-to-supportfuel-for-evinci-microreactors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Costain wins design contract for Urenco HALEU facility<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>https:\/\/www.world-nuclear-news.org\/articles\/costain-wins-design-contract-for-urenco-haleu-facility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Other News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Capping work begins at UK\u2019s Drigg repository<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;It\u2019s [ the ] first time DRS has used its JNA-Z box wagons, with each train making the journey from Shap quarry to the Repository to deliver over 750 tonnes of material.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neimagazine.com\/news\/capping-work-begins-at-uks-drigg-repository\">https:\/\/www.neimagazine.com\/news\/capping-work-begins-at-uks-drigg-repository<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Australia turns its back on new nukiller.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wauchope.substack.com\/p\/a-resounding-win-for-the-worlds-nuclear?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">https:\/\/wauchope.substack.com\/p\/a-resounding-win-for-the-worlds-nuclear?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Coming events &#8211; Maybe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Whitehaven<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Barrow<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Capenhurst<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spreingfields<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leafleting about the DRS Nukiller Waste Trains at Various Stations such as Warrington, Preston, and Wigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We need more activists in order to make these events happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of Countering Capenhurst is very much a news summary as we look at just what needs to be worked upon over the coming months. DRS Flask Movements On January 14th four flasks were taken via Crewe and Ullverston to Sellafield. While on January 16th two DRS engines went from Crewe to Sizewell and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=1384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Countering Capenhurst \u2013 Early Summer 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countering-capenhurst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","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=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}