Blogposts tagged 'Deep Dumping'

When is a solution not a solution?

Posted by ben - 15 November 2007 at 6:51pm - 0 Comments

Nuclear waste barrels

As Gordon Brown grapples with the question of whether to push the nuclear button and give the green light to a fleet of new reactors in the UK, we keep on hearing from those rum coves in the industry about how they now have a solution, or more accurately a "management strategy", for dealing with all the tonnes of lethal radioactive waste nuclear reactors produce. This state-of-the-art solution comes in the shape of the rather grandly titled "deep geological repository". To you and me this roughly translates as "a deep hole in the ground", a massive underground dump wherein our toxic legacy will be buried, back filled and then it's goodnight Vienna.

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Government's nuclear ambitions suffer another body blow

Posted by nathan - 5 November 2007 at 12:18pm - 0 Comments

It looks like the government's nuclear ambitions have been dealt yet another major body blow. This time it's all about the thorny, intractable issue of nuclear waste.

Just as yet another nuclear-related consultation comes to an end, this time on where to store the UK's highly toxic atomic legacy, the government has been warned that it would be "wrong", and possibly even illegal, to use Sellafield in West Cumbria as a site for long term nuclear waste disposal. David Smythe, emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Glasgow and a nuclear waste expert, said ministers should have ruled out Sellafield - home to the nation's most enthusiastic nuclear partisans and the long-assumed front runner in the race to house a waste dump – years ago after spending hundreds of millions of pounds on research that proved the area was geologically unsuitable to be a store for radioactive waste. Professor Smythe said, "there is clear evidence, after the expenditure of some £400m, mostly directed to the Sellafield area, that West Cumbria possesses no suitable rocks in which to site such a repository".

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Bury it deep under the carpet, along with all of nuclear's other problems

Posted by bex - 28 July 2006 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
A radioactive waste dump in Buryakovka, Russia

A radioactive waste dump in Buryakovka, Russia

CoRWM has recommended that the UK should manage its radioactive waste pile through "deep geological disposal", also known as deep dumping.

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Greenpeace response to draft recommendations from CoRWM

Publication date:  26 May, 2006

Summary

In May 2006, CoRWM released its draft recommendations (PDF) on the management of radioactive wastes. The committee, which was set up by the government to find a long-term management plan for nuclear waste, concluded that the best available approach is "geological disposal" - more commonly called deep dumping.

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