Responding to the news that councils in Cumbria have voted against the construction of an underground nuclear waste facility, Greenpeace Energy Campaigner Leila Deen said:
"This decision represents yet another major blow for the Government's attempts to force the construction of costly nuclear power plants.
“Even the PM admits we need a plan to store waste before we can build a single new plant. This decision shows that dumping waste in uncertain geology near one of the country's most pristine national parks is no solution at all.
“Ministers must now re-consider their nuclear ambitions and turn their attention, instead, to clean, sustainable and renewable energy."
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