SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has announced she is "appalled" that Northern Ireland is being included in consideration for locating a geological disposal facility.

Ms Ritchie has also raised concerns about early moves to identify NI as a spot for dumping Britain's Nuclear Waste.

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Radioactive Waste Managament Ltd have launched a consultation on proposals for the draft National Geological Screening Guidance which will be used as the basis for locating a geological disposal facility for underground storage of nuclear waste.

She said: "The North does not want nuclear waste. It doesn’t matter if it comes from indiscriminate discharges from the Sellafield Plant, from underground disposal facilities or from new nuclear sites. We will not become a backwater dumping ground for Britain's nuclear waste."

(CD/MH)