The government has denied claims that it is keeping arrangements for dealing with radioactive waste at the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear power station a secret “for national security”. The claim was made in the Guardian newspaper this week.The Guardian said a “furious row” had broken out after the Department of Energy and Climate Change refused to disclose the arrangement with French energy giant EDF for dealing with radioactive waste at the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear plant. A Department of Energy and Climate Change spokesperson said: “Taxpayers won’t have to pick up the bill for the safe disposal of waste produced by new power stations.”Developers will have to prove that they can meet their waste and decommissioning costs in the future and there are publicly available documents setting out how this will happen.” She declined to comment on the record about the disputed FoI inquiry and national security claims.
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