Opposition to nuclear waste dumps in Wales mounts as consultation meeting in Swansea cancelled

A proposed meeting in Swansea by the British government-run Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) organisation has been cancelled.  A news item on Transceltic last week on plans to use areas of Wales as a possible nuclear waste dump was widely shared. RWM are looking for possible sites to bury Britain's most dangerous radioactive waste. In what is described as a search for “a willing host community” where nuclear waste can be buried, two meetings were planned in Wales at Swansea and Llandudno. In what some point to as a bribe to any community that expresses an interested in hosting a GDF (geological disposal facility), they could receive up to £1m a year initially and up to £2.5m a year if deep borehole investigations took place.

The Swansea meeting was planned for Tuesday, March 12, and was objected to by Swansea Council. However, although RWM have said there won't now be a physical public meeting, they plan to host an online Webinar instead of an event in the City. The meeting at Llandudno on March 14, is at this stage, still set to continue. Plans to use parts of Wales for the dumping of lethal nuclear waste have met with widespread opposition across Wales. The leader of Neath Port Talbot Council, Rob Jones, has already made it clear at a full council meeting earlier in February, that Neath Port Talbot Council will not be engaging in the process of meetings to discuss acting as a host site for dumping nuclear waste at any level. He also said that: “Moreover, in the unlikely event that a credible proposal emerged in any adjacent area, we would very strongly oppose that as well.”

This is the Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) website.