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Copeland Council Forms Working Group Around Radioactive Waste Disposal Site

November 6, 2020

Via: Waste360

Copeland Council has formed a working group to identify a new radioactive waste disposal site.

In 2013, the Council looked at the Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) but Cumbria County refused permission. If approved today, the site would store the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste underneath several hundred meters of solid rock.

The Council will look at all of the Copeland borough area, but will exclude the Lake District National Park. Underground facilities off the coast will also be considered.

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