King's Cliffe

Something that appears to have escaped my news radar is the plight of the people who live in and around King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. The government have gone against their protests and the opposition of the district council to agree to the dumping of low level radioactive waste in a nearby landfill site. This has quite incensed me and I can imagine how I would feel if a decision was made for me to do the same thing here.
Quite how anyone in their right mind could justify the burial of radioactive waste is beyond me - regardless of whether it it low risk or not, it still presents a risk not just now but for future generations. I understand also that the landfill is above a water table to the contamination of natural spring water in the area is highly likely.
There seems to be total disregard for the views and fears of the local residents and the authorities have adopted a typical 'out of sight, out of mind' attitude to the whole thing - and that has to be wrong. Surely the days are gone whereby if we didn't like something, we simply buried it. Burying radioactive waste cannot be the answer. Are the authorities going to supply local residents with gieger counters and provide an alarm for radiation leakage? No is most definitely the answer. In truth, no one will actually care once it's buried. The people who will care, and who will go on caring, are the people of King's Cliffe who will be worrying for their children playing in the fields, worrying whenever they drink from the tap and worrying about how much their homes will be worth. For these people, their lives will change and all because of an ill thought money-oriented decision by the machine of government here in the UK. If it's so safe, then why isn't it being buried in London or near Sandringham perhaps? There's loads of open space there. Of course it won't - it's too risky. So why risk the people of King's Cliffe...?
I support fully the people of King's Cliffe and oppose this decision to pollute a vast area of land with radioactive waste. I would suggest that their fight should be taken to the European Courts if they haven't already done so.
Wrong, wrong wrong!