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The only local authorities in the UK continues to participate in feasibility studies have voted against storage facility

Government plans to conduct preliminary work of an underground storage tank of nuclear waste have been rejected by Cumbria County Council Wednesday.

County Allerdale and Copeland District Councils and West constituting the "nuclear side" with the Isle of Man was the only local authority in the UK continues to participate in feasibility studies for installing storage of 12 billion pounds.

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voted 7-3 against the search continues after testing independent geologists fractured layers county could not assign such millennia hazardous materials and constant danger. A passionate campaign by environmentalists also raised concerns about the western lakes, win the support of the Lake District National Park Authority and hundreds of influential groups of the landscape in the UK and abroad.

suitable candidates for the tank, the size of a meter and Workington bound by the bond unprecedented up to a million years, was reduced to an area of ??natural beauty exceptional in the Solway Firth and the wild grandeur of the western hills around Ennerdale and Eskdale. The vote to proceed was only a step early in the pathway, but the evidence that drilling and exploration brought roads and temporary facilities at some of the most beautiful landscapes in the UK has left many stunned.

The plan was strongly supported by unions and many Labour MPs and councilors with nearly 10,000 jobs in Sellafield in Copeland and many more indirectly depend. It would create up to 1,000 jobs, with storage expected to begin in 2040 if feasibility studies have been approved.

Tim Knowles, who holds the environment portfolio in the cabinet Cumbria, fought for a compromise that would continue research Copeland eveywhere except the national park. But I was in the minority after a series of colleagues whose County Conservative Party leader Eddie Martin, warned against the dangers of radioactivity and the enormous potential explosion in tourism, an important source of income for Cumbria.

Jobs council deputy leader Stewart Young, said: "The reasons to invest in Sellafield is now more urgent than ever, we have always raised concerns about the lack of a plan B government and that. was the only West Cumbria to express their interest in the process has left the government with little choice if we decide not to prosecute. now is the time for the government to ensure the future long-term nuclear industry and to storage mechanisms solid Sellafield, while deciding how to continue the search for a daycare in the rest of the UK. "

Activist Greenpeace energy, Leila Deen said: "This decision is a further blow to the government's attempts to force costly construction of nuclear power plants, even the Prime Minister admit that we need a plan to store the waste. before we can build a new one.
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