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Scotland could be hit ‘with £22bn nuclear clean-up bill’.

 SCOTLAND could be saddled with a bill of more than £22 billion as part of
Westminster’s clean up of nuclear dumping grounds over the next century,
the SNP have said. Official estimates published by the UK Government last
November estimated total clean-up costs for sites which contained disposed
nuclear material from weapons programmes and energy generation could come
to £263bn over the next 100 years.

This means Scotland, which contributes
8.6% of the UK’s tax revenue, could be made to pay £22,618,000,000 in
total, working out to £22m every year for a century. The SNP’s defence
spokesperson Martin Docherty-Hughes criticised how conventional military
spending had been “recklessly slashed” while the Tories focus cash on
disposing nuclear materials from weapons of mass destruction.

 The National 23rd April 2024

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24272520.scotland-hit-with-22bn-nuclear-clean-up-bill

April 26, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | UK, wastes