Consultation launched on nuclear waste storage
January 15 2010
The Scottish government believes that “near surface, near site facilities” will better allow the monitor and retrieval of such substances without the need for waste to be transported long distances.
Sites close to existing nuclear facilities at Dounraey, Hunterston, Chapelcross, Rosyth and Torness are being looked at.
This policy diverges from the UK government’s preferred strategy of storing such waste deep underground with a site in Cumbria seen as the most likely underground storage facility.
Scotland’s environment minister claimed this “out of sight, out of mind” policy was losing support.
Reiach and Hall were recently commissioned to design the UK's National Nuclear Archive in Wick.
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http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.com/2009/10/forwever-waste.html
Today it was announced they have to dig out 126,000 barrels of waste, up to 40 years old, not knowing the condition they are in and their individual content! That is because the storage deep down is a now flooding salt mine, originally regarded as safe for +10,000 years!
Water + salt + steal = tax payers' money!
That is learning by doing the hard but stupid way.
caw