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Re-examine nuclear waste policy, says minister

A Church of Scotland minister this week claimed the Highland Council's policy opposing nuclear waste being taken into the county may have to be re-examined. The Rev Ronnie Johnstone pointed out that the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, in its final recommendations for the long-term management of the UK's intermediate-level waste, called for deep disposal underground. CoRWM also stated that communities interested in taking on the facility should volunteer to become a site for the waste.

Mr Johnstone, speaking at a meeting of the Caithness presbytery in Thurso on Tuesday evening, posed a number of questions on the issue. The church and society convener wondered what is meant by a local community; what the incentives are to volunteer; and how a community's opinion is to be explored and established.

Full story at the John O'Groat Journal.