Not a real band. This was a project by Harry Williamson (most known for his collaboration with Genesis-co-founder Anthony Phillips) to record an anti-nuclear song. The band (which released one single only) included Sting, Steve Hillage and other members of Gong and Hawkwind. Both songs were written by Harry Williamson (named H. Williams on A-side label) and the single was released to raise money for the antinuclear campaign by Friends of the Earth.
On the first edition of this single (a limited pressing of 500 singles on Virgin Records - NO NUKE 235 label) the band is called "Fast Breeder And The Radio Actors" with no names mentioned. This single (recorded in January 1978 in London) was released without artwork but with a lyric sheet and was quickly sold out at antinuclear protests in London from April 1978 on. The lyric sheet says ‘Stop Press A new single “Nuclear Waste”/ “Digital Love”, by Fast Breeder and the Radio Actors, a secret enclave of past and future superstars, is released on May 5th’. This is one of the earliest recordings of Sting, who is only singing on the track Nuclear Waste, not on the B-side.

The 1978 single of the Fast breeders & The Radio Actors was re-released a number of times; this is the first re-release from 1979 – when the name of the band was changed in Radio Actors – , and Sting and Steve Hillage were mentioned very modest on the backsleeve. This one would be followed by a number of re-release from 1981 on with Sting and Steve Hillage more prominently on the front cover. The latest re-release (on CD) is from 1995 and omitted the band name "Radio Actors" altogether, but has some bonus tracks from the same pre-Police recording sessions.

Peter Maxwell Davies (1934 – 2016) had a keen interest in environmentalism. The English composer and conductor wrote The Yellow Cake Revue in 1980 in protest at plans to mine uranium ore in Orkney. The work is a sequence of 11 cabaret songs and recitations, with two interludes for piano. The first interlude, "Farewell to Stromness", has become one of Davies' most popular pieces, and has been arranged for various instruments. "Yesnaby Ground", too, is often performed as an independent piece. The slow, walking bass line that pervades the Farewell portrays the residents of the village of Stromness having to leave their homes as a result of uranium contamination. The Revue was first performed at the St. Magnus Festival, in Orkney, by Bron, with the composer at the piano, in June 1980. Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney, would have been two miles from the uranium mine's core, and the center most threatened by pollution, had the proposed development been approved. The entire composition was never recorded and released at the time, is however available as a score and was entirely played by members of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in November 2020. (youtube)

The songs on this LP are bright, bleak, black, biting, ironical, tender, sharp, gentle, thoughtful and emotional. They will, it is hoped, give heart and voice to those who are standing up against the nuclear state. They attack the monster which is nuclear power from all angles. They are about the conditioned belief in leaders, authority figures and progress (March of Progress and Experts); about the fears of living in and bringing children into a nuclear world (Stay Home in Bed and Sleep Well); about the trap of nuclear power's supposed economic benefits (Very Slow Bomb Song); about those things which have gone wrong and are going wrong and will go wrong, but which, of course, present no danger to the public (No Cause for Alarm); about the prospecting for sites where nuclear waste can be dumped in some of the more remote and beautiful areas of Britain (The Cheviot Hills). Three songs - Who Reaps the Profits?, Mock Auction and Out of the Darkness -- ask more fundamental questions: about the violence done to the earth, about the destruction of the indigenous people of the world in the scramble to exploit the earth's resources, about the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons, about the kind of society which demands nuclear power, a society motivated by competition, profit and greed, a society whose values are hollow, devoid of all feeling and humanity, a society driven by some mad logic and a technology out of control towards its own extinction. (Sleeve notes)

Oi Polloi are a anarcho-punk rock band from Scotland that formed around 1981. The band has gone through about 50 members since their formation, and their only permanent member has been vocalist Deek Allen, who has also been involved in Gaelic-language television. The band has included punks and skinheads. The members have been supporters of Anti-Fascist Action and Earth First!, and they use the motto “No Compromise in Defence of Our Earth,," which is an adaptation of Earth First!'s motto. They support direct action in defence of the environment, hunt sabotage, as well as resistance against racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism and imperialism.
This is the 1994 re-release of Resist the atomic menace; "Originally recorded way back before Chernobyl had brought the dangers of nuclear power to the awareness of even the most ignorant of people. As we sadly no longer have the original master tapes for this the sound quality is slightly less than perfect. But turn it up loud and it 'll pass. In any case, providing easy listening material has never really been our aim." The titlesong is about the suspicious death of Hilda Murrell in March 1984. A world famous rose grower, Hilda Murrell had been a campaigner for ecological sanity for many years and was in the process of writing a paper on the dangers of nuclear power to be presented at the Inquiry into the proposed building of a Pressurized Water Reactor at Sizewell. This was vital evidence for those opposing the PWR but after the break-in her final draft was strangely found to be missing. More information from the insert [English, pdf].

This album contains a number of antinuclear songs Sellafield Child, Nuclear Means Jobs.
Peggy Seeger (1935) is one of the most influential folk singers on either side of the Atlantic, but especially well known in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years with her husband, songwriter Ewan MacColl. The well-known American folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger is her half-brother. She has made more than 22 solo recordings to date. Peggy’s best-known song is Gonna Be an Engineer (1971), which has become one of the anthems of the womens' movement.
Ewan MacColl (James Henry Miller: 1915-1989) is known to most people as a songwriter and singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting. He was a committed socialist all his life and his political sensibilities underpinned all his creative activities. MacColl wrote songs for many different contexts: incidental songs for theatrical productions, commissioned pieces for labour unions or political causes, songs stitched together from vernacular speech recorded for the radio documentary series The Radio Ballads, songs for rallying, striking, marching… and, of course, songs for singing in folk clubs.
Both are founder members of the Banner Theatre, a community theatre company based in Birmingham, England. The theatre was founded in 1973.

England, summer 1992. U2 and Greenpeace combine forces in a major campaign to stop the reprocessingplant at Sellafield. U2 headlines an concert with Public Enemy, Krafwerk (with a premiere of an anti-nuclear version of their 1975 Radioactivity song) and B.A.D. II. Their protest with Greenpeace outside the gates of Sellafield is banned by the courts. This video contains live footage of the concert, rare interviews and tells the incredible story of Sellafield and the latest campaign to stop it. The concert took place at the G-Mex Manchester England, on June 19, 1992. More information.

Julian Cope (1957) is an English rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet, and an outspoken political and cultural activist. Originally singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band The Teardrop Explodes, he has followed a solo career since 1983. the EP Fear loves this place, from his eighth album Jehovahkill, released in 1992. However, Sizewell B, the EP’s b-side was only released as a bonus-track on a re-release of the album in 2006.
On Cope’s website (head Heritage his statement is quite clear: Nuclear is not the climate solution! It is not clean, not safe, not secure, not affordable but slow! “No British nuclear power station has ever been built to budget. The last one, Sizewell B, cost more than twice the estimate”. Sizewell B was connected to the grid in 1995. The release of the EP in October 1992 was accompanied with an ad by Cope in national newspapers, questioning U2’s commitment to the anti-nuclear movement.