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England’s beautiful Lake District could get radioactive waste dump

the report showed “almost anywhere in the Lake District could become a dump for the UK’s radioactive waste”…dumping this stuff underground is no solution anyway – wherever it is. So we certainly shouldn’t be creating any more nuclear waste.

Nuclear waste could be dumped in Lake District The Lake District could become a ‘dumping ground’ for the nuclear industry, environmentalists fear, after the Government failed to rule out England’s largest national park to bury radioactive waste. Telegraph UK By Louise Gray,  28 Oct 2010 The problem of where to store nuclear waste has dogged the British Government since the first power stations were built in the 1950s.

At the moment the waste is stored temporarily on site but as the country decommissions the nine power stations currently running, pressure is building to find a permanent solution deep underground……

Ben Ayliffe, senior energy campaigner at Greenpeace, said the report showed “almost anywhere in the Lake District could become a dump for the UK’s radioactive waste”.

“It’s hard to imagine a more tragic legacy to Britain’s nuclear folly than vats of lethal nuclear waste being stored around Keswick or Scafell Pike. It’s certainly not the sweeping vistas that would have inspired Wordsworth or Coleridge,” he said.

“And dumping this stuff underground is no solution anyway – wherever it is. So we certainly shouldn’t be creating any more nuclear waste. There are much better ways of producing electricity.”

Nuclear waste could be dumped in Lake District – Telegraph

October 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive