Not content with buying Cumbrians off with billions of pounds of taxpayers
money for a slush fund
– the industry is now using Squirrel Nutkin as the
latest tool in the Nuclear greenwash offensive. Studsvik UK has sponsored
‘Save our Squirrels’ to great fanfare. Personally if I was a red squirrel
I would want nothing to do with the controversial radioactive metal
‘recycling’ plant. Against the wishes of local people and businesses
Studsvik has introduced a nuclear process into a part of Cumbria that was
previously nuclear free. It sounds great – recycling radioactive steel
imported from reactors but this recycling involves huge amounts of water
and chemicals. The radioactivity is not eradicated it is spread over a
wider area and the water ends up back in our lakes and rivers ( ready for
Squirrel Nutkin to sail across on his raft of twigs). Meanwhile the still
radioactive steel is put out onto the market and has found its way into
everything from lift buttons to the pots and pans cooking our nut roast.