Great Pyramids – Spoil Heaps in Cumbria

“No possible underground repository site can be found within the area of Allerdale and Copeland district councils, that would be geologically safe.

In addition to the insurmountable geological problems, the NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning Authority) is misleading the elected officials and the general public of West Cumbria as to the scale of environmental blight to be caused, were such a repository to be excavated.

The MRWS: (Managing Radioactive Waste Safely) partners need to ask some searching questions of the NDA; in particular, why the figures from the NDA’s own environmental assessment, used herein, have not been presented in a more honest and transparent way.”

Professor David Smythe

 
Tim Farron MP has agreed to ask the following questions of the Department of Energy and 
Climate Change on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland
To DECC:
1.Is the former Nirex proposed repository site at Longlands farm
regarded as geologically suitable for the deep disposal of nuclear waste
and, if so, what new evidence, subsequent to the 1997 decision not to
proceed with the construction of a Rock Characterisation Facility at
this site, has led to this conclusion?

2. To detail the process followed for selection of members of the
Criteria Proposals Group (CPG) and a Criteria Review Panel (CRP), set up
in February 2007 to develop the geological criteria for screening out
unsuitable sites for deep geological disposal of nuclear wastes.

3. The NDA's assurances to Cumbria County Council do not tally with
projected excavation.  Has the NDA seriously miscalculated the amount of
rock spoil from excavation of a geological nuclear dump up to 1000 metre
deep and 10 kilometres square?

Power Point Presentation -Rock Spoil - Great Pyramids in Cumbria 11oct11