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Co-Locating to Cut Costs page 12
from Nuclear Waste's Shifting Sands on the Lakeland Fringe
by Lakes Against Nuclear Dump - a Radiation Free Lakeland campaign
.... would require the following additional activities to be undertaken, with associated costs incurred:
Additional land purchase and mineral rights.
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Access routes, transport arrangements (via rail, road or sea) and package receipt facilities.
Site characterisation to support development of facility designs and safety cases (although co-location of facilities would also increase site characterisation requirements relative to a GDF).
Depending on distance from a GDF site, workshops, stores and other surface facilities could be shared or duplicates may be required.
Security arrangements, including fencing”
Information on “Co-Location” from: Galson Sciences Ltd report prepared by R. Wilmot, S. Doudou, J. Kent, F. Neall and S. Wickham 15 July 2016 commissioned by Radioactive Waste Management Ltd (RWM Purchase Order RWM005723L)
CONCLUSION
Alarming Nuclear waste mission creep is taking place with the “vision” for Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Wastes to run in tandem with a High Level Waste deep Geological Disposal Facility.
Radioactive Waste Management have kept the so called “Community Partnerships” in Allerdale, Copeland and Lincolnshire in the dark about Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Wastes likely to run in tandem with a High Level Waste deep Geological Disposal Facility. The Near Surface Disposal plan for Intermediate Level Wastes would “free up” the Geological Disposal Facility for Higher Activity Wastes and, to save costs the two sites could be “co-located.
The Near Surface dump for Intermediate Level Wastes would be expected to be completed far earlier than GDF - as soon as in 10 years time - despite Government Policy not currently allowing for Near Surface Disposal of Intermediate Level Wastes.
To reiterate, the NIREX plan for a Rock Characterisation Laboratory to facilitate the dumping of Low/Intermediate Level wastes was rejected back in the 90’s.. It is not clear to us exactly when or how the plan changed from Low/Intermediate Level to High Level Nuclear Wastes for a GDF but it must have been between 1997 and 2008 ie the transition from NIREX to Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely (now RWM)
