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Huge legacy of radioactive trash in UK, much of it already in Cumbria

Whitehaven News 30th January 2021,  CHRIS WHITESIDE County councillor for Egremont North & St Bees (Conservative)   Any consideration of the issue of nuclear waste in Cumbria
must start by recognising one basic fact. No matter how much some people
might wish it were otherwise, Britain already has thousands of tons of
low-level waste material, and a substantial amount of high-level nuclear
material, as a legacy of our existing and historical nuclear programmes.
And much of it is already in Cumbria.

Imagining that the tens of thousands
of cubic metres of nuclear material which is already here at sites like
Sellafield and the LLWR will somehow magically go away if you put up
posters demanding that there should be no nuclear waste in Cumbria or,
worse, try to sabotage any attempt to get a rational discussion going about
how we can most safely manage the nuclear waste which we already have by
vilifying anyone who takes part in a conversation about it, is not just
incredibly stupid but utterly irresponsible.

https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/19051819.whitehaven-news-letters-nuclear-waste-years/

January 31, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes