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Nuclear protester in call to MPs
A RADIOACTIVE waste campaigner and politician has written to the Government to raise his concerns over the low-level radioactive waste site at King’s Cliffe.
George Smid, King’s Cliffe campaigner and chairman of Corby Liberal Democrats, has written to Local Government minister Andrew Stunnell calling on him to make changes under “the spirit of the Localism Bill”.
He said: “The Government must stop the dumping of radioactive waste at King’s Cliffe. The operator of the site was allowed to deposit radioactive waste only on appeal to the Secretary of State after Northamptonshire County Council refused the application.
“I really hope Andrew Stunnell will help. We believe strongly in localism, but Eric Pickles has over-ridden local objections on this. We need to push for the Government to listen to local people otherwise we lose all the credibility with our support for Localism Bill.”
Mr Smid was one of the people arrested at Augean’s site last week.
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Aliss
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 04:47 PMPending Moderation
Ascension
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 09:16 PM#1 Campaigners would say LLW should be isolated from the environment and not landfilled with rainwater seeping through it into the water table. The proximity principle is should apply to all waste: it should be kept near to where it is produced to reduce transport and incentivise the reduction of volume. #3 If you had a bin full of this stuff you'd be required to hold a license for it - unlike your smoke detector. I agree the site is also inappropriate for hazardous waste. #4 People have evolved to live with radon. Comparing it to elements like e.g. plutonium (which the LLW will contain) is a methodology arising from convenience to the nuclear and not ability to assess risk.
Finker
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 08:41 PMCan't understand anyone in Northants complaining about levels of radioactivity when the place is full of naturally occurring Radon - how many people bother enough to get the levels in their own homes tested though. The word radioactive just gets associated with lots of things that aren't at all connected.
Aliss
Monday, December 12, 2011 at 04:14 PMIt's low-level nuclear waste. A wheelie bin full of it is less radioactive than your smoke detector. As robbierunciman points out - find a better place or give up your medicine and electricity (and smoke detector). You'll get a higher dose. The site already handles the other materials which would be in low-level waste (e.g. heavy metals, which I'd be far more concerned about). For a good guide to relative radiation doses, see http: xkcd.com radiation and note that "living next to a low level waste dump" would be pretty much near the top of the blue box
Biker45
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 11:30 AMCouldn't agree more with comment #1. In my view, same applies to wind-farm nimby's
robbierunciman
Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 09:51 AMI think Piggles anticipated nimbyism and that some communties would not pull their weight for society; waste is still strategic.Where would the campaigners want it to go, any ideas, can they find another geologically suitable site, how would they feel pushing waste onto that community? Time for Andrew Stunnell to see the bigger picture. I guess people in the village have had xrays,scans and even used power generated from nuclear reactors - so what is the problem, is waste fro poorer communities only?
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