Just before Parliament’s Christmas break, two significant and alarming documents were released by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) concerning its proposed policy for the construction of a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste. The first is a “Summary of Responses to the Consultation Working with Communities: Implementing Geological Disposal” and the second is “An updated framework for the long-term management of higher activity radioactive waste”. This replaces the 2014 White Paper “Implementing Geological Disposal in England”.
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