Rules about chatting about Radioactive Waste

Posted: 25th January 2022

New guidelines which campaigners say could benefit communities around nuclear sites have been boycotted by a UK Government nuclear agency. Internal documents seen by The Ferret reveal that the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has rejected proposed reforms because they had caused “a great deal of bad feeling”. Guidelines aimed at making local meetings about safety at nuclear sites across the UK more transparent, accountable and representative were put forward in a nuclear industry report. The report condemned liaison groups at some sites for“poor practice” and for having “no accountability”. The nuclear industry must shed its reputation for being “secretive” by being “open and honest”, it said. Campaigners criticised the NDA for tryingto block the guidelines, which had “much to commend them”. At many nuclear site meetings dissenting voices were absent or marginalised, they said. But the NDA, which supports more than half of nuclear site stakeholder groups, defended their independence. Local communities should decide how to run their meetings, not the nuclear industry, it said. The Ferret 23rd Jan 2022  https://theferret.scot/nuclear-sites-reforms-row/ The National 23rd Jan 2022  https://www.thenational.scot/news/19868098.nuclear-decommissioning-authority-rejects-proposed-transparency-reforms/