The Journal is a record of the research that supports the writing of the spoken-word piece. The Journal is about the turbulence and stretch of the Solway and about the civil-military nuclear industries that affect it and connect it...
One of the reasons for ‘the sea cannot be depleted’ existing online is that it can travel freely and take its own course as people listen and read and make the piece their own. Alongside this near-random travelling are...
I will have to revise my caution and be more assured of the hazards presented by DU having now read The Derived Inventory by the Radioactive Waste Management and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, 2014 and 2013...One of the categories of...
The ruse by the MOD that they were placing the DU weapons, not dumping nuclear waste, was more than a slithering away from responsibility and legality. These firings placed the estuary. They named it as nuclear. They bring the...
The DU firings may not have that quality of exceptionalism that is an ontological marker for the nuclear. If not exceptional, then DU weapons could be seen as, what the US administration calls, ‘useable’ nuclear weapons.
At a social event, in an informal context, on the Cumbrian side, a man asked me what I did and I returned the question. ‘I work in the civil-military nuclear industries’ he answered. I asked again to make sure...