Small hamlet offers itself as Spanish nuclear waste cemetary

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Small hamlet offers itself as Spanish nuclear waste cemetary
By h.b. - Aug 3, 2006 - 3:41 AM

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The Mayor of Peque thinks the nuclear plant would be the way to keep a population in his village

The Partido Popular Mayor of the Zamora hamlet of Peque, with a grand total of 175 inhabitants, has offered the municipality to play host to Spain’s needed new nuclear cemetery.

Rafael Lato Lobato, has been in contact with the Ministry for Industry and considers that the presence of the nuclear cemetery will stop the exodus of the population from his hamlet.

The planned temporary nuclear waste cemetery has a budget of 1 billion € and would mean the creation of 300 jobs during the four of five years it would take to build.

Once working it would have 110 direct employees, and would accept the waste from all of Spain’s nuclear power stations.