SIR - With the construction of a new nuclear power plant underway in Somerset and plans to build four others, the Government has a huge problem to solve, ie where to put the most dangerous highly radioactive waste material. They had assumed that Cumbria would take it, but in 2013, the local county council there rejected the plan. Now another spot has to be found for an underground geological disposal facility (GDF) and crucially a community found somewhere in the UK convinced to agree to it being located there.
Ann McCall at Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) said that building the facility was "mission critical" to storing the UK's radioactive waste and there was "an awful lot of it".
The place must allow for a geological setting which would isolate the radioactive waste from the surface for the required time-scale, which is hundreds of thousands of years. A national geological screening report has been done but requires further information. But, who would WANT to live in the vicinity of such a place, given the choice?
David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose
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