
Bellona Nuclear Digest. November-December 2024
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
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Publish date: October 28, 2008
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Cumbria County Council is considering "expressing an interest" in a formal government process to find a suitable location for a nuclear waste dump.
But council chiefs stressed they were not committing to a site and any plan would be subject to the scrutiny of a full public consultation, the BBC said.
Around 70 percent of the UK’s high level nuclear waste is stored at Sellafield. The county council’s cabinet is due to meet next month to discuss the plans.
Tim Knowles, Cumbria County Council’s cabinet member for nuclear issues told the BBC that, "The decision is an important one, but I must stress that we’re not making any commitments that Cumbria is the right place to have a nuclear waste repository.”
"That decision can only be made after thorough community consultation and a long process of looking at any proposal in far more detail,” he said, adding: "However, as 70 percent of the country’s higher level nuclear waste is already stored at Sellafield and the area is at the heart of Britain’s nuclear industry, it’s clear that we need to be talking to government about the best long-term solution."
A survey of events in the field of nuclear and radiation safety relating to Russia and Ukraine.
A military drone with a high-explosive warhead struck the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, damaging a protective shelter that prevents radiation leaks at the plant’s destroyed fourth reactor unit, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Friday.
Russia has officially withdrawn from an international environmental agreement that brought to bear billions of dollars from EU nations and the United States on addressing the nuclear legacy of the Soviet Union.
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