Reference
PL/NIX1/4
Title
Correspondence file
Date free text
Oct 1983-Oct 1987
Production date
From: 1983 To: 1987
Scope and Content
NIREX Proposals. Includes:
- NIREX press releases, including announcement of Elstowe site;
- correspondence with and notes of meetings with PIEDA (NIREX consultants);
- BCC notes on intended test drilling;
- correspondence with NIREX;
- notes on the relevant parts of Sizewell B (new nuclear power station) enquiry;
- transcript with Chiltern Radio interview with NIREX;
- BCC update notes at each stage;
- notes of NIREX visit to Elstow site with three "Independent Directors" (Ray Buckton, Angela Rippon and Sir Hand Kornberg);
- correspondence between NIREX and local author Jim Eldridge regarding comments in his book "Save Our Planet - An Anti-Nuclear Guide for Teenagers";
- coloured drawings of undersea disposal vaults;
- map of possible areas for disposal of radioactive waste on land in UK;
- outline of events in the High Court proceedings regarding BCC injunction to prevent NIREX test drilling
Level of description
file