Reference
PL/NIX1/3
Title
Correspondence file
Date free text
Oct 1985-Apr 1988
Production date
From: 1985 To: 1988
Scope and Content
Includes:
- BAND evidence and NIREX response;
- statement on the four NIREX sites;
- notes of meeting with SoS;
- support for BCC position from Northants and Herts County Councils;
- Instructions to Counsel to advise on legality of BCC’s expenditure on campaign opposing NIREX in the light of LGA 1986;
- Counsel’s Advice;
- amendments to County Structure Plan opposing nuclear dumping;
- SoS’s refusal to authorise revised County Structure Plan;
- correspondence with BAND;
- correspondence between BAND and AWA;
- notes of lecture on US Radioactive Waste Policy;
- correspondence with Nuclear Free Zones National Steering Committee;
- letter from SoS re County Councils Coalition [see introduction] report on radioactive waste disposal in Europe;
- ERL response to letter;
- NIREX letter to SoS announcing abandonment of shallow repository scheme nationally;
- SoS response to NIREX and announcement to House of Commons;
- BOND statement re abandonment of scheme;
- correspondence with Western Isles Island Council re possible dumping by NIREX there;
- Labour Party press release re campaign against NIREX;
- BCC “No to NIREX” document;
- two reports of NIREX site investigation at Elstow.
Level of description
file