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Sellafield waste will stay on site after 2021, Cumbria County Council agrees

The Sellafield atomic fuel reprocessing site, operated by Sellafield Ltd., stands in Seascale, U.K., 

Sellafield waste will stay on site after 2021, Cumbria County Council agrees, In Cumbria, By Liam Waite  @imliamwaite    11th June 20  Sellafield can continue to store 11,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste in one of its Seascale buildings, Cumbria County Council has agreed.

Permission was granted in 1992 for Sellafield to store encapsulated intermediate-level waste in a five-storey building on the site but that permission was due to expire at the end of next year due to a planning condition.

At a virtual meeting of the council’s development control and regulation committee yesterday, councillors voted unanimously in favour of removing the condition and allowing the waste to continue to be stored there after an application by Sellafield Ltd.

Members were told that there was no permanent alternative available in the absence of the proposed new UK Geological Disposal Facility, the location of which has not yet been decided. …… https://www.in-cumbria.com/news/18506264.sellafield-waste-will-stay-site-2021-cumbria-county-council-agrees/

June 13, 2020 - Posted by | UK, wastes

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