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Cumbrian councils to vote on nuclear waste burial sites
The Guardian
The government could suffer a devastating blow on Wednesday to its hopes of burying nuclear waste in the UK as three councils in Cumbria meet to decide whether research on sites in the county should go ahead. The whittling down of suitable areas in the ...
Lakes waste plan causes nuclear fissionFinancial Times
Nuclear waste disposal debateITV News
Underground nuclear waste dump vote in CumbriaBBC News
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Cumbria underground nuclear waste dump voted down
BBC News
Plans to build a huge underground bunker in Cumbria to store nuclear waste have been voted down by the county council. The next stage would have been to search for a suitable site for the city-sized dump and look at the impacts, but that won't happen now.

Nuclear waste debate: Decision day for west Cumbria
ITV News
Three councils will decide today whether or not they want to look at possible sites to bury high level nuclear waste in west Cumbria. The executives of Allerdale, Copeland and Cumbria County Council's cabinet will hear representations from those for ...

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Cumbria councils vote over nuclear waste project
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A vote is to be held later on whether to go ahead with a search for a site to store high level nuclear waste. Executive members of Cumbria County and one of either Allerdale or Copeland Borough Councils must agree if "Stage 4" of the process is to go ...

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Lakes waste plan causes nuclear fission
Financial Times
The 17th-century Pheasant Inn on the banks of Bassenthwaite in the Lake District is an unlikely setting for a political drama with national implications. But a meeting of friends for afternoon tea there late last year set off a chain of events that has ...
Cumbria's nuclear waste debate rolls onBBC News
West Cumbria nuclear waste debate: argument AGAINSTITV News
Crucial vote on Cumbria nuclear siteNW Evening Mail
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Deep nuclear waste disposal sites gain traction
Financial Times
Nuclear nations have been grappling for decades with how to deal with the toxic spent fuel produced by reactors. Most governments are storing their high-level radioactive waste in temporary facilities. All of them will be watching events in the UK closely.

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Cumbria's nuclear waste debate rolls on
BBC News
Last night's Cumbria nuclear waste storage programme provoked a big response so here are some thoughts on your feedback. We didn't set out to examine the environmental and safety issues surrounding the nuclear store on this occasion. You may recall a ...
West Cumbria nuclear waste debate: argument AGAINSTITV News
Crucial vote on Cumbria nuclear siteNW Evening Mail
Impact of nuclear dump on Cumbria's tourism 'inconclusive'News & Star
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West Cumbria nuclear waste debate: argument AGAINST
ITV News
Tomorrow 24 councillors will decide whether the west of the county will look for a possible site to bury nuclear waste. Opponents say an underground waste store would affect tourism and are concerned that it could be unsafe. Fourteen million people ...

NW Evening Mail
Crucial vote on Cumbria nuclear site
NW Evening Mail
But the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management said the risk of terrorism, among other things, meant geological disposal would be safer in the longer term. The government says geological disposal involves placing the high level waste deep ...
Impact of nuclear dump on Cumbria's tourism 'inconclusive'News & Star
Nuclear dump row hots upin-cumbria

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News & Star
Impact of nuclear dump on Cumbria's tourism 'inconclusive'
News & Star
He added: “Cumbria Tourism has engaged in the Managing Radioactive Waste Safely (MRWS) consultation exercise and after very careful consideration of the facts currently available, take a neutral stance on whether a nuclear waste repository should be ...
South Lakes MP asks for parliamentary debate on nuclear repositoryNW Evening Mail

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DOE issues nuclear waste strategy
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a strategy document aimed at providing interim storage for spent nuclear fuel and, ultimately, a geologic repository for such waste. The report responds to a blue ribbon commission on America's Nuclear ...