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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Nuclear Waste News Update 9/20


Romney Marsh nuclear waste storage plant plan rejected
BBC News
Plans to build a nuclear waste storage facility on Romney Marsh in Kent have been thrown out by Shepway council. The final decision was taken by Conservative council leader Robert Bliss after councillors voted against the proposals on Wednesday.

Romney Marsh nuclear waste storage plant plan rejected

BBC News - ‎9 hours ago‎
Plans to build a nuclear waste storage facility on Romney Marsh in Kent have been thrown out by Shepway council. The final decision was taken by Conservative council leader Robert Bliss after councillors voted against the proposals on Wednesday.

Shepway council reject nuclear dump proposals

Kent News - ‎15 hours ago‎
Proposals to build an underground nuclear waste plant on Romney Marsh have been shelved by Shepway council. Leader of the council Cllr Robert Bliss has agreed with his council colleagues to not submit a formal expression of interest for a nuclear dump ...

Locals say no to nuclear waste dump at Romney Marsh

Kent Online -
A three-dimensional image of the proposed Romney Marsh underground nuclear waste centre. by Sam Lennon. Plans to press on with a project for a nuclear waste site on Romney Marsh were thrown out last night. Shepway councillors voted 21 to 13, to not ...

Marsh nuclear plan thrown out by Kent Council

Rye and Battle Today -
Members of the Kent council voted 21 to 13 against formally expressing interest in the government's facility for the geological disposal of nuclear waste. Last week 63 percent of residents surveyed rejected the scheme, fearing it would contaminate the ground ...

Shepway District Council says No to £12 billion nuclear dump on Romney Marsh

This is Kent -
HUGE cheers were heard at Shepway District Council this evening when plans for the controversial nuclear dump on Romney Marsh were turned down. In last week's Herald we reported how 63 per cent of residents asked in a recent consultation by SDC ...


BBC News
Selection of radioactive waste disposal site creates unhappy locals
Asahi Shimbun
When the central government decided on a state-owned forest in Yaita, Tochigi Prefecture, as a dump site for radioactive-contaminated waste, it informed Yaita city officials only one hour before it made the announcement. Yaita Mayor Tadashi Endo was ...
UT Scientists Fuel Method for Cleaning up Nuclear Waste
The Alcalde
Fukushima. Chernobyl. Nuclear fuel has a long, fraught history. More expensive than coal, and more dangerous than oil. A litany of reasons prevents the United States from producing nuclear energy at the capacity of certain European countries, and from ...
No Allerdale council debate over nuclear waste store plan
Times & Star
Allerdale councillors are angry that they will not get a chance to formally debate plans for a nuclear waste dump. Eric Nicholson photo. Eric Nicholson. Back bench members of Allerdale council expressed their concerns at an informal meeting last night ...

Times & Star
No to N-dump 'would put nuclear new-build at risk' says professor
in-cumbria
FORMER government science adviser Sir David King has warned that Britain's nuclear power programme would be put at serious risk if a search does not go ahead in West Cumbria for somewhere to bury radioactive waste from the new reactor fleet. 
Passing the nuclear waste buck | The Japan Times Online
Regarding the Sept. 12 front-page Kyodo article "Nuke waste plan scares scientists": So it's finally out in the open — the one issue that alone should have ...
www.japantimes.co.jp/text/rc20120916a1.html

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