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Norway’s dangerous plan to dump nuclear trash on island

radioactive trashflag-NorwayNorway wants to dump nuclear waste on island, The Local,  14 Aug 2015 Norway’s government wants to dump 1,200 tons of radioactive waste on an island an hour south of Oslo, even though the waste company which owns the site believes it is too dangerous. According to Norway’s VG newspaper, Norway’s Ministry of Industry has hired a Swedish consultant in order to overall the objections from NOAH, which owns the waste dump on Langøya, and so force it to take radioactive sludge from the Søve mines an hour inland.

 “We are reacting very strongly to this,” Stein Lier Hansen, the chief executive of the the industrial trade group NHO, told the newspaper. “It’s simply startling that the ministry is trying to overturn the  expert assessments of a private company.”…….http://www.thelocal.no/20150814/norway-wants-to-dump-nuclear-waste-on-oslo-island

August 17, 2015 - Posted by | EUROPE, wastes

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