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Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says all of UK’s high level radioactive waste is at Sellafield

NDA: ‘No plans to send high-level nuke waste to Sellafield’ , Whitehaven News by Alan Irving, 13 January 2011 THE Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says it has no plans whatsoever to send high-level radioactive materials to Sellafield. Copeland’s MP Jamie Reed has raised Parliamentary questions over claims that high-level waste might come to Sellafield from other UK nuclear sites.
His concerns were reported in The Whitehaven News this week. “I am still waiting for answers to my questions but I have been told I won’t get these until Monday.”The questions have been tabled to Secretary of State for Energy Chris Huhne. One of them is what plans Mr Huhne’s department has to locate all of UK’s historic and future high-level radioactive wastes at (a) Sellafield and (b) West Cumbria.”

But the NDA responded: “We can state categorically there are no plans at all for high-level waste to be moved to Sellafield from other sites. The facts are that all high-level waste is created at Sellafield by reprocessing spent fuel and as a result 100 per cent of the UK’s current high level waste is already stored at the site.”

Potentially the only radioactive material that could come would be from Dounreay and Harwell……..

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January 14, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes