{"id":779,"date":"2017-09-18T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=779"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T09:22:00","slug":"countering-capenhurst-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Countering Capenhurst – September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 60 Years On<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nOn October 10th<\/sup> it will be exactly sixty years since the Windscale Fire<\/a>. <\/span><\/strong>We are organising a serious of events that day in conjunction with Radiation Free Lakeland as a part of Working Alliance.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nWhat exactly caused the fire is somewhat difficult to explain,\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>especially as it involves explaining what happens to graphite when exposed to radiation, <\/span><\/strong><\/span>and Wigner energ<\/a>y.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nThus we would recommend you to read the following article in the\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Journal of Radiological Protection.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nThe Windscale reactor accident\u201450 years on <\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Capenhurst in the news<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nAt the start of September it was reported that:-\u00a0 <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Urenco tails plant to start up in 2018<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/span>‘Uranium enrichment company Urenco yesterday said it expects to commission the Tails Management Facility (TMF) at Capenhurst in the UK in 2018, after construction delays. The facility, to deconvert depleted uranium hexafluoride tails, had previously been expected to enter service this year.<\/span><\/span> ‘<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No Sale \u2013 For Now<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nDuring 2015 there were a number of news stories <\/a>about the proposed sale of URENCO<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nAfter that there was nothing published in the UK press about this proposed sale.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nSo we were very interested to <\/span>learn <\/span>the following of late <\/span>from our friends in <\/span>Stichting Laka <\/a>:-<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n‘In October last year the Dutch Economic Affairs minister officially announced that the sale was off for now. No agreement could be reached about the possibility that Urenco would be sold on the stock market.
\nThat is: the Dutch and UK governments agreed on that, but the German government did not.’ <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nNo doubt this will not be the end of this sale proposal,\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>but at the moment it is just another case of Business As Usual.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Speaking of which.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nIf you are involved in any group or organisation which would like someone from the Close Capenhurst Campaign or Working Alliance<\/a> to talk about any aspect of nukiller power then please let us know.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nBetween us we can talk every aspect of the Nukiller Fuel Cycle, Nukiller New Build, and Radioactive Waste Disposal.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nTo arrange a speaker just contact us via Closecapenhurst@gmail.com<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 60 Years On On October 10th it will be exactly sixty years since the Windscale Fire. We are organising a serious of events that day in conjunction with Radiation Free Lakeland as a part of Working Alliance. What exactly caused the fire is somewhat difficult to explain,\u00a0 especially as it involves … Continue reading Countering Capenhurst – September 2017<\/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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","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\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/close-capenhurst.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following on Brexit<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nIt is now a couple of years since we heard much about the proposed sale of URENCO in the British press.<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nThough we did find find the following upon the URENCO website:\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nStatement from URENCO as the UK notifies of intention to withdraw from the European Union.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nThe part of this statement being:-<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n‘<\/span>In a post-Brexit landscape URENCO will ensure that we sustain normal operations across all our facilities and continue to deliver on our commitments to our customers.’ <\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nWhich might be summed up as them saying that it is – Business As Usual<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nThis follows on from what we were asking earlier in the year. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nWho Will Regulate URENCO Post Brexit ?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nYet given the very shambolic way in which the Brexit negotiations are being conducted,\u00a0 w<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>e still wonder what might happen if there is no clear post Brexit deal worked out within the next 18 months.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n