Representation by Radiation Free Lakeland (Radiation Free Lakeland)
- Date submitted
- 27 September 2020
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Radiation Free Lakeland do not recognise the legality of this consultation. "There should be no commitment to a large programme of nuclear fission power until it has been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to ensure the safe containment of longlived, highly radioactive waste for the indefinite future." Nuclear Power and the Environment, or the Flowers Report, was released in September 1976 and by the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, chaired by Sir Brian Flowers. There is no demonstration beyond reasonable doubt that a method exists to safely contain long lived highly radioactive active wastes. The wastes have to date not been adequately contained above ground with a catalogue of leaks and accidents arising from the UK's nuclear waste storage facility at Sellafield. There is no demonstration beyond reasonable doubt that the wastes would be safely contained 1000m below ground in a GDF. Sizewell C should not go ahead.