Losing Wastwater Paradsise drop by drop...

.......it is no accident that the Lake District was chosen for the world’s first
nuclear power station. With the deepest, coolest lake in England complete
with arctic charr, the Lakes has an abundance of freshwater . Only 1 percent of the world’s
water is drinkable. The recent summer floods were a stark reminder that the most
important resource is not electricity, it is fresh water.

Sellafield no longer produces electricity but still needs to abstract
billions of gallons of freshwater from beautiful Wastwater (and disused Lakeland mines etc)
for the cooling ponds in order to prevent catastrophe (Abstraction rates for
Wastwater are available from the Environment Agency - licensing records
stand at 18,184.4 cubic metres a day – one cubic metre alone equates to
1000 litres or 220 gallons).

Wastwater is geologically young, around 15,000 years old. High-level
radioactive waste will remain hot for substantially longer. The
Freshwater Biological Association has stated that large bodies of water in
the Lakes are warming up. This means that ever more water will be needed
to feed the nuclear industry. Seawater is too corrosive for such a
hazardous job. Freshwater is life to the Arctic charr – an indicator
species of healthy diversity. Freshwater is also our most precious
resource.

A petition can be signed online: http://www.petitiononline.com/NUCLEARX/

INfo

Nuclear power uses and abuses more freshwater per kilowatt of electricity
produced than
any other form of energy.

Freshwater is lost to the supply at all stages including:
• Uranium mining/milling /tailing dams
• Conversion to steam to power the turbines
• Cooling pond water discharged into the sea
• Looking after the waste (long after electricity production ceases)