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Commons report on radioactive waste: FOE comment
13 February 2002
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee today released its report on Radioactive Waste Policy. TheInquiry, which was held at the end of last year, looked at the Government's five year consultation on radioactivewaste, which was launched on September 12th 2001.
Commenting, Rachel Western, FOE Nuclear Campaigner, said:
"There is no solution to the problem of radioactive waste. However it is possible for Government and industryto make important changes to current practices to ensure major improvements. Nirex should be set up as anindependent body, BNFL should phase out reprocessing, and plutonium must be treated as waste.
Today's committee report, which urgently calls for the establishment of a new policy body to carry forward thepresent review, is warmly welcomed by Friends of the Earth."
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