Tourism on the Lincolnshire coast will suffer if an underground facility is built, opponents claim.
Campaigners opposed to plans for a nuclear waste disposal site on the Lincolnshire coast say it could be "disastrous" for the seaside economy.
Nuclear Waste Services , the government agency behind the plans, said the multi-million pound project would create jobs, improve transport links and boost the local economy.The group has produced a 60-page booklet called The Nuclear Option. NWS is considering the site for what is known in the waste industry as a geological disposal facility .The GDF would see nuclear waste being stored beneath up to 1,000m of solid rock until its radioactivity had naturally decayed.
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