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United Kingdom: Nuclear expansion plan thwarted after Cumbria no vote to underground store

2013-01-30 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Plans to expand the UK's nuclear industry are in disarray after the only area to show interest in hosting an underground radioactive waste storage centre decided to thoroughly reject the idea. Cumbria county council's cabinet voted by more than 2-1 to pull out of feasibility studies, following expert critiques of the fractured local geology and an international outcry over the threat to the western Lake District. The decision is a major blow to government ambitions to build new nuclear power...

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