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News Archive – February 2006
Sellafield
to get a nuclear waste dump?
NIREX is paving the way to return to West Cumbria to dig a nuclear waste dump under the Gosforth area, according to local newspaper, the Whitehaven News. Nirex's plans for a so-called Rock Characterisation Facility were turned down in 1997 by the then environment secretary John Gummer after a five-month inquiry. But Nirex has retained long leases on land around its West Cumbrian boreholes.
CoRWM
report must not be seen as ‘green light’ to new reactors
The chair of the Government's Committee on Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM), Professor Gordon MacKerron has said the Committee's final report, expected in July 2006, should not be seen as a 'green light' to new nuclear reactors.
Micro-renewables
Embrace micro-generation (small-scale, home-based, renewable-energy technology that powers your house) and you'll get decades' worth of clean, green power, freedom from the tyrannies of a global energy supply chain, and be granted immunity from the high electricity bills expected in the near future (remember, the era of cheap power is over).
Hunterston
B at 30
Hunterston B is 30 years old on Monday 6th February. British Energy has announced that it will seek a ten year life extension to 2021.
Hunterston has a disastrous economic history which shows why we would be mad to revive the nuclear industry.
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