Proposed UK nuclear storage site garners local support

BBC : Following in the footsteps of Finland, which pioneered the “voluntarist” approach to storing high-level nuclear waste, a county in the UK may become home to an underground storage facility. A long consultation process, one element of which is a poll, is being mounted by the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership. The poll showed that across Cumbria as a whole, 53% of residents are in favor of the site. Nevertheless, a number of people and groups oppose it; among their objections are potentially unsuitable geology and the possibility of a terrorist attack. If Cumbria’s government decides to proceed, it can still opt to pull out over the next several years, since the first waste would not enter the site until about 2040.