Anti-nuclear campaigners have lodged Freedom of Information requests over plans to store radioactive waste at Drigg.
Lakes Against Nuclear Dump, a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign, wants to know more details about the Government’s proposals for near surface disposal of intermediate level waste.
It has lodged Freedom of Information requests with Radioactive Waste Management, asking:
- Have the public been consulted about the RWM/NDA/CoRWM plan for Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Waste at Drigg’s Low Level Waste Repository?
- Has the Borough or County Council held a debate or vote on whether to take any steps towards Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Wastes by alllowing 16 rock characterisation boreholes to be drilled at a depth of 120m into the underlying sandstone ?
- What are the category of low and intermediate level wastes proposed for NSD and would this include the category of wastes previously designated by NIREX for a GDF ?
In a newsletter in March this year for the Low Level Waste Repository at Drigg, it said: “The NDA is exploring the benefits of developing NSD – for disposing of a proportion of Intermediate Level Waste (ILW), but no decision has been taken on whether UK Government will pursue this option or whether LLWR, will in time, host a NSD facility.
“Optioneering studies are required to understand what’s possible on the site before any decision is taken on how to proceed.
“An NSD facility could bring benefits to the estate, for example by freeing up space in Sellafield’s Intermediate Level Waste stores, which could then be used for high hazard waste.
“The latest phase of the work sees the deployment of multiple wireless geophones along roadsides and the use of a specialist vehicle to generate vibrations into the ground.”
