Nuclear Waste Services will be in Haverigg today to persuade locals that having mine shafts and associated nuclear sprawl on the Lake District coastline (but not in the National Park) leading to a deep sub-sea nuclear dump for the UKs and much of the world's nuclear wastes will be "safe" and "secure". The sub-sea area involved would be 26 to 50 km square. The "smaller" area proposed would be the size of Tuvalu at 26 km square. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of ongoing research projects into, for example, the release of radioactive gases, how the heat generated would impact the geology, the steel containments and the bentonite backfill. These ongoing research projects throw up more questions regarding the safety of long term containment. Nuclear Waste Services are asking locals who are now in reciept of nuclear dump community funds to express support for an experiment. An experiment which will impact their health and the environment for generations to come. Those who are not "local" who would also be impacted are deliberately excluded from "having a say."
Tuvalu - the same size as the proposed sub-sea nuclear dump at 26 km square
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