• Worried about nuclear waste?
• Worried about the future of the Lake District?
• Confused about what the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely ‘Partnership’ is doing in West Cumbria?
• Hoping that it won’t affect you, your children or your children’s children or all the other people after them ?  And the millions of visitors who flock here every year?

Welcome to the website which explores the topsy-turvy world of nuclear waste policy and exposes the way the Government is mishandling it.

Save Our Lake District – Don’t Dump Cumbria ! has been formed to counter proposals to find a place somewhere in West Cumbria to dump High and Intermediate level radioactive waste. It will be close to the Lake District National Park, or even underneath it. Although it would create some jobs in the nuclear sector, it would threaten other parts of the local economy.

Something needs to be done about nuclear waste but the Government has decided, without full research and ignoring scientific uncertainties, that deep underground disposal is the answer – for hundreds of thousands of years…