Nuclear Waste

Cumbria County Council has branded the government's decision to exclude it from talks over the search for an underground nuclear waste store "outrageous".

The authority has officially responded to the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) over the revised search process announced in the summer.

In January, the county council voted against staying in the talks.

The government then enabled district councils to make the decision.

Copeland and Allerdale district councils had previously been overruled in expressing an interest in being considered over where to store high-level radioactive waste.

The DECC said having such a store would bring in jobs and other economic benefits.

A DECC spokesperson said: "Geological disposal is the right approach for the long-term, safe and secure management of the UK's higher activity radioactive waste.

"Hosting a site would bring lasting economic benefits with jobs, opportunities for businesses and a generous benefits package to support the community.

"We want to make sure those benefits are well understood and supported by all those in the area surrounding any host community."

If this is so beneficial to the 'host community' - how come London has grabbed it like it grabs anything else that's profitable? Why is it the North always gets stuff like this?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-25041302

Re: Nuclear Waste

Is there 'space' in London .....
The 'host' cant be 'forced' to do this - can they .....?

Re: Nuclear Waste

I don't think they can - I just wish it wasn't Cumbria again, we had enough of a problem with Sellafield. I remember the UK government trying to burn all the bodies of the slaughtered animals in the UK (the foot and mouth thing) on the Isle of Man but the Manx government said a flat no to that.