GREENPEACE UK lists RAF Bawdsey Site as potential nuclear waste dump.

This is one that seems to have slipped under the Radar of the local media to my knowledge - a rare 'Felixstowe Scribblers Weblog' exclusive.

GREENPEACE UK lists on its website that the RAF Bawdsey Site is a potential destination for the governments perenial search for a home for some if not all of Britains nuclear waste. I would imagine that they are talking about a site for bulk low level waste rather than some of the more dangerous stuff, but you never know. My understanding was that they were looking for deep, hard rock sites - more common in the west and north of our fair island rather than out here in the sandy east. Given the huge costal erosion problems it seems to me not an obvious choice for a place to store material that needs the very safest of homes for the next few thousand years - unless the Nuclear Industry is planning on paying for the constant burden of the sea defence work as well as the huge financial liability of the waste too.

Im trying to avoid the NIMBYesque cliches of a response to our new prospective neighbour - after all this is being typed as I write on a PC powered by no doubt Sizewell originating electricity.

Maybe they are hoping that inbetween fighting closure of the Bartlet and campaigning against the huge housing developments proposed for Trimley / Gulpher sites we would just let this one quietly through.

More later asuming I havent mutated futher. At least it is finally raining.

PS Other interesting Nuclear Bawdsey facts.

....There is a disused military nuclear bunker under RAF Bawdsey.
....The British Nuclear program team that was based at Orford Ness later moved to Bawdsey Manor when the experimental phase of the program was concluded.
....Rumors are the 'Bloodhound' Anti-aircraft missiles that were based at RAF Bawdsey untill the mid 1980's and were a sinister feature of the North of Felixstowe's skyline through that time were nuclear armed and had they ever been used would have resulted in a sieries of nuclear 'airbursts' above the North Sea.

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GREENPEACE UK | Environmental Issues | GM Food | Nuclear Power

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