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United Kingdom: Cumbria nuclear waste dump vote
2013-01-28 09:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground storage of high-level radioactive waste. With some of it staying dangerous for up to 100,000 years, the government's agreed solution is to bury it - permanently. Three Cumbria councils are due to vote on Wednesday on whether to proceed to the next stage in the process of investigating whether such a facility would be possible - and safe - in the county. What does the government want to build? The underground storage facility would...
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