A WORKING group has been established to consider the potential for a Geological Disposal Facility in the borough of Allerdale. Chaired independently by Jocelyn Manners-Armstrong, the Allerdale Working Group will discuss the viability of Allerdale as a location for the facility. It includes Allerdale Borough Council, Radioactive Waste Management and GenR8 North Limited - a private company. A geological disposal facility would put higher-activity nuclear waste hundreds of meters underground. The working group is the second of its kind in west Cumbria as the Copeland Geological Disposal Facility Working Group is exploring the possibilities for their borough. Radioactive Waste Management, a public body tasked with delivering on a GDF facility has celebrated the forming of both groups.
RWM welcomes launch of second GDF ‘Working Group’
The Working Group in Allerdale, Cumbria, will now begin local discussions about the potential for a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF).
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14 January 2021
A Working Group has been formed in Allerdale, Cumbria, to begin discussions about the potential for hosting a deep geological facility for the safe and secure disposal of radioactive waste.
Today’s announcement follows two months after the first group was established in neighbouring Copeland. Chaired independently by Jocelyn Manners-Armstrong, the Allerdale Working Group will now begin local discussions and fact-finding about the potential for the future siting of a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) in Allerdale.
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