Cumbria rejects hosting nuclear-waste repository

摘要

The UK government will have to look elsewhere to store its mounting nuclear waste after plans were rejected to assess sites in Cumbria for a ￡12bn underground nuclear-waste repository. On 30 January seven of the 10 members of Cumbria County Council cabinet voted against a proposal to build an underground laboratory in the region that would have acted as a testbed for a full-scale storage. District councils in west Cumbria are now hoping that the veto - the second in 14 years -will be overruled by the government.