Bangor City Council have unanimously rejected a bid to dump nuclear waste within Bangor and the surrounding areas.
The UK government are currently looking for a Welsh community to volunteer to ‘host’ 60 years’ worth of the UK’s most dangerous radioactive waste from nuclear power stations and nuclear weapons production.
At their monthly meeting, Bangor City council members were quick to support the motion that Bangor would not become the host of a nuclear waste dump – known as a Geological Disposal Facility.
The Town Clerk read out a letter from Jill Evans MEP, Chair of CND Cymru, about communities having to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste dump. Any volunteering community would have a financial incentive from the government to do so.
Jill Evans MEP said: “As you know, the government is currently looking for a Welsh community to ‘volunteer’ to host an underground nuclear waste dump, officially described as a geological disposal facility, to bury all the high-level nuclear waste from the UK’s nuclear weapons and nuclear power programmes. Any volunteering host community would be rewarded financially.
“We believe that leaving a legacy of nuclear waste, which needs to be isolated from humans and the environment for tens of thousands of years, cannot be justified by short term financial gain; indeed, we are borrowing the present from our children and future generations.
“We are writing to you to urge your council to pass a motion stating that your community will not volunteer to host an underground waste dump. CND Cymru will keep a record of every community, town and county council that passes such a motion, and submit a list to the government’s consultation as part of our submission to the consultation.”
