[size=75:cfopeya0]The Budapest Times 22 February 2010

Region likely to host nuclear store

Central Europe is being lined up as the site for a storage facility for nuclear waste from across the European Union, the UK’s The Times reported last Wednesday. The eight members of the European Repository Development Organisation – the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Bulgaria – are discussing the transport and storage of waste. Most member states only have one or two reactors and would like to cut costs by building a common store. Neil Chapman of the Association of Regional and International Storage, which is involved in the talks, said whichever county agreed to host the site would be paid but added that none had so far publicly stated a willingness to accommodate it. Very few countries operating atomic power stations have so far constructed permanent sites to store the waste by-products of nuclear power generation. Slovenia is building a storage facility for low-level waste in Vrbina in the east of the country and has accepted payment to do this. The United Kingdom, France and Germany store their own waste and oppose permanent exports.



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