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Students alerting public to danger of nuclear waste dumping in Cumbria, UK

 the proposals … will be a ‘travesty of democracy’…..

there are claims that important scientific information is being ignored

Students fight Cumbria nuclear dump plan The Westmorland Gazette, 23 March 12, CONSULTATION over whether a nuclear waste repository should be built on Cumbria’s west coast comes to a close tomorrow with opponents making their voices heard in many imaginative ways…. The opposition to the Govern-ment’s proposals were prompted by concerns over the consultation process and the lack of knowledge about nuclear
waste.
Anti-nuclear activists Save Our Lake District are staging Rock Solid?
Expo — a collection of artworks by Cumbrian artists exploring the plan
to build a repository in the county. The exhibition at Kendal Museum
was launched with a walk up the 978-metre-high Scafell, which the
group claims is smaller than the proposed mine that would be filled
with radioactive waste.

Marianne Birkby said the group wanted to educate Cumbrians about the
proposals which she claimed will be a ‘travesty of democracy…..
Student Miranda Gardner, 24, who headed the campaign, said: “We hoped
to highlight the urgent need for as many people as possible to save
Cumbria from nuclear dumping, and make their voices heard.”

And this week South Lakeland District Council has said in a letter to
the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership (MRWS)
that there are ‘fundamental flaws’ in the procedures of the
consultation process.

Anti-repository groups have also raised concerns about building a
‘dump’ in a geological area.

They claim mines were abandoned because of high rainfall and permeable rocks.

The MRWS has said a facility will only be built if it is safe. But
there are claims that important scientific information is being
ignored. http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9607509.Students_fight_Cumbria_nuclear_dump_plan/

March 24, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes