Communities in Cumbria and Lincolnshire are being consulted about the possibility of building a geological disposal facility where nuclear waste would be buried underground. The UK hopes to have one by 2050, but there remains some opposition.
David Moore, a farmer, said:"Sellafield has brought great economic benefit."We can't keep passing it down the generations. I've got seven grandchildren and I want to make sure the waste is in the safest place it can be."Keith Hudson, a retired science teacher, backs geological disposal as the safest solution."They know the geology is better in the east of the country, where they could build a GDF big enough and do so quicker, better and cheaper," he said.
But there is no nuclear industry near the proposed GDF site in Lincolnshire, unlike in Cumbria, and making the case to the local community may well be harder. "That's the problem with the whole process. It's not being driven by the science or the economics, but by politics," Mr Hudson said.NWS insists that any water in the bedrock off the Cumbrian coast is static or slow moving, and not a risk.
It says the design principle for the GDF is that there will be less than one in a million chance of radioactivity returning to the surface to harm people.
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