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At a briefing held yesterday to outline plans for an underground repository (贮藏处) for high-activity nuclear waste in the United
At a briefing held yesterday to outline plans for an underground repository (贮藏处) for high-activity nuclear waste in the United
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2012-06-20
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At a briefing held yesterday to outline plans for an underground repository (贮藏处) for high-activity nuclear waste in the United Kingdom, Bruce McKirdy of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) said the UK government had learned from past mistakes to be open and transparent with the public. To this end, NDA has released a new report today detailing the amount of nuclear waste that needs to be stored and how they will use a "volunteer system" to select a suitable site.
The last attempt for such a facility in the United Kingdom came to a halt in 1997 when a planning application for construction at Sellafield in Cumbria was refused due to opposition by the local community. "The site selection had been done behind closed doors, as the government was worried about adversely affecting house prices," McKirdy says. "If you choose a site that would be geologically suitable and then impose these plans on a community, projects like this fail." A recent high-profile example of this is the abandoned plans for an underground nuclear waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain in the United States.
To avoid a similar fate, NDA is currently asking communities to volunteer to host the facility in exchange for a currently undefined benefits package. However, local communities are far from champing at the bit to store the nation’s nuclear waste. Only three neighboring counties have so far expressed interest: Cumbria County Council, Allerdale Borough Council, and Copeland Borough Council. And even then, these communities can easily withdraw their interest at any point before construction begins—in a best-case scenario, NDA hopes this will be in 2025, with the facility potentially ready to accept nuclear waste by 2040.
NDA hopes the report released will help communities make an informed decision about hosting the site. It "highlights what we know now and what we can assume we will need to achieve this mission safely, securely, and effectively," McKirdy says.
"Plan B is to make sure that plan A works," says Alun Ellis of NDA.
What is the UK government’s attitude towards the storage of nuclear waste?
选项
A、The government will make its decision behind closed doors.
B、The government will make its decision clear to public.
C、The government will force a community to shoulder the mission.
D、The government will negotiate with the communities about this issue.
答案
B
解析
细节推断题。该句说,英国政府已从过去的错误中学会了要对公众公开透明。下文还提到核废物处理局的报道详细描述了需储存的核废物数量以及如何遵循自愿原则寻找合适的储存地。由此推知,B)“政府将向公众公布做出的决定”与之符合。故为正确答案。
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