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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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United Kingdom: Cumbria rejects underground storage dump
2013-01-30 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Government plans to undertake preliminary work on an underground storage dump for nuclear waste were rejected by Cumbria county council on Wednesday, adding a major roadblock to plans for a long term solution to the problem of nuclear waste. The county and its western district councils Allerdale and Copeland which make up the "nuclear coast" opposite the Isle of Man were the only local authorities in the UK still involved in feasibility studies for the 12bn disposal facility. Cumbria's cabinet...
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VIDEO: Cumbria votes on nuclear waste store
2013-01-30 10:18:11| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Three councils in Cumbria are due to vote on whether to continue with plans for a 12bn underground storage facility for nuclear waste.
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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United Kingdom: Protests spread on Cumbria nuclear waste dump plan
2013-01-17 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Here's more on the growing concern that nuclear waste burial could be considered within the borders of the Lake District national park, following Cumbria Tourism's stand against the prospect earlier this week. A meeting in Keswick saw all but three of 500 present vote against the idea of pursuing research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, one of the few areas of stable geology in West Cumbria, the home of the Sellafield nuclear complex. As well as being in the national park, the lonely valley is the...
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