Nuclear Waste Stores Planned For Scotland (from Sunday Herald)

UP TO six new stores for nuclear waste are planned for Scotland in a move which will create a new confrontation between the Scottish government and Westminster.

Scottish ministers - who have already effectively blocked Westminster plans for new nuclear power stations north of the Border - believe waste from our existing power stations should be kept in Scotland rather than transported to a dump near Sellafield in Cumbria.

Both the UK government and British Energy, which operates the nuclear power stations, are opposed to the move.

The SNP government is considering building long-term storage facilities at or near to existing nuclear sites. This means that Hunterston in North Ayrshire, Torness in East Lothian and Dounreay in Caithness could all end up with waste stores, along with possibly Chapelcross in Dumfries and Galloway, Rosyth in Fife and Faslane in Dunbartonshire